[ILUG] blkid vs fdisk problem

[Ivan Griffin]

Hi,

I have a weird problem that I have not been able to resolve.

Without thinking, I created a RAID0 device of 2 4GB partitions to give me 
a 8GB swap space - /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 became /dev/md2. Obviously, 
this is a redundant thing to do, as the kernel is smart enough to manage 
its own swap space.

I have subsequently tried to back out these changes, and add two separate 
partitions instead

I've changed the types of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 to Linux swap (0x82) 
with fdisk, and I've run mkswap -L on them, and I've enabled them with 
swapon.

All fine.

I rebooted at this point to ensure the kernel picked up the  correct 
partition table.

However, I noticed /etc/blkid/blkid.tab* was incorrect - it still showed 
them as RAID
/dev/sda2: UUID="ec87d46f-e0af-c9a8-7653-8e1ed3c3b2e5" TYPE="mdraid"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="ec87d46f-e0af-c9a8-7653-8e1ed3c3b2e5" TYPE="mdraid"

No problem, or so I thought. I rm'd /etc/blkid/blkid.tab* and then ran 
blkid -c /dev/null

However, they are still being created as before:
/dev/sda2: UUID="ec87d46f-e0af-c9a8-7653-8e1ed3c3b2e5" TYPE="mdraid"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="ec87d46f-e0af-c9a8-7653-8e1ed3c3b2e5" TYPE="mdraid"


Where is blkid getting this UUID and these partition types?

This is on a Fedora-8 system.

Cheers,
Ivna.