Geekzone: technology news, blogs, forums
Guest
Welcome Guest.
You haven't logged in yet. If you don't have an account you can register now.


Incindre

117 posts

Master Geek
+1 received by user: 21


#189430 29-Dec-2015 19:29
Send private message

I wasn't feeling confident enough to rebuild my degraded RAID 10 array (lost one of my four 2TB drive) so I decided to remake the array from scratch (using Webmin, a web based administration GUI for Ubuntu server). All was going well until it came time to create a file system when what I assume is some sort of issue due to previous configuration halted the process. Something to do with the GPT headers.

I think the best thing to do is to try and restore the drives to their default state and get rid of any trash data that might be screwing the process over.

Question time: can anyone suggest the best way for me to blank these 4 Seagate HDD's so I can throw on GPT partition tables and recreate my RAID array?

Create new topic

This is a filtered page: currently showing replies marked as answers. Click here to see full discussion.

gzt

gzt
18679 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 7809

Lifetime subscriber

  #1458703 29-Dec-2015 19:58
Send private message

Err... Maybe gdisk. It comes with gparted.

This explains some potential issues:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/wipegpt.html


Create new topic








Geekzone Live »

Try automatic live updates from Geekzone directly in your browser, without refreshing the page, with Geekzone Live now.



Are you subscribed to our RSS feed? You can download the latest headlines and summaries from our stories directly to your computer or smartphone by using a feed reader.