On 23/09/2010 22:54, Neil Brown wrote:

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:16:19 +0100
John Robinson[off-list ref]  wrote:

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On 23/09/2010 08:30, Benjamin Schieder wrote:

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But now I can't remove the sda partitions from the RAID:
kblhbe101:~ # mdadm /dev/md0 -r /dev/sda5
mdadm: cannot find /dev/sda5: No such file or directory
kblhbe101:~ # mdadm /dev/md0 -r sda5
mdadm: cannot find sda5: No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong here?
kblhbe101:~ # mdadm --version
mdadm - v2.6 - 21 December 2006

Try `mdadm /dev/md0 -r missing`.

Close.  "missing" is only meaningful with --re-add.
You really want  "-r faileded" or "-r detached"

Bah. I knew it was something like that.

Cheers,

John.