Removing mdadm array and converting to regular disks while preserving data
- by Jeffrey Kevin Pry
I have a 6 disk (2TB each) mdadm RAID 5 volume created in Ubuntu 12.04 Server. However, I'm moving to a different solution and want to "unraid" my disks but keep the data. Only 50% is in use.
From what I can surmise I basically have to do this recursively for each physical disk.
Fail the disk
Format the failed disk
Move a portion of files to…