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How to clean up broken NetApp disk labels

Friday, January 24th, 2014 Posted in NetApp, Storage | No Comments »

Had a challenge today trying to use NetApp disks that we're provisioned in Clustered Data OnTAP 8.2 on a system reverted to 8.1.4, found this useful tidbit here, and easily cleared the labels making the disks usable again. filercluster::>node run -node ...

How to stop an mdadm resync.

Sunday, April 4th, 2010 Posted in Linux, Storage | No Comments »

After reading through the manpage for mdadm and struggling with attempts to kill the resync processes manually I came across the checkarray command. To stop an active resync of all md raid devices "/usr/share/mdadm/checkarray -xa". To stop a specific device ...