On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Ivan Griffin wrote:
> needed to overwrite all of or the end of the partition and not just the
> start?
Yes. The MD layer keeps a superblock of meta-data at the end of the
disk. You have to nuke that. See the '--zero-superblock' option of
mdadm, e.g.
regards,
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