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Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4r: Replacing/Formatting Second Hard Drive
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4r: Replacing/Formatting Second Hard Drive
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Sep 10 09:18:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, T. Jay Fowler wrote:
> So now I want to add the second drive back in. But it has data on it. And
> I was afraid of the RAID syncing the wrong drive. So I formatted it in
> another Linux box, and cleared all partitions.
>
It is best to use an uninitalized drive.
run
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc (hdc is "Second Hard Drive")
this will reinitialize the drive and will take some time
Then put it back in and boot the system up
Gerald
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