[Techtalk] How to get rid of RAID in Centos 5.4

Jessica Sterling jns at redhat.com
Fri Feb 12 21:36:51 UTC 2010


----- "Juliet Halloran" <tataloppit at verizon.net> wrote:

> I thought I removed the RAID from this computer, but when I cat
> /proc/partitions, dm-0 and dm-1 are still there.   I'm practicing
> configuring RAID on a virtual server using four small partitions on
> two virtual disks for RAID 1 and RAID 0.  I wish I could get the RAID
> to go away now so I can practice again.  Does anyone know how to
> completely remove the RAID?

Hello,

dm-X devices are simply devices created by device-mapper.  Software RAID devices typically show up as mdX.

Hope this is helpful.  :)

--Jess


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