2 * mdadm - manage Linux "md" devices aka RAID arrays.
4 * Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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19 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
22 * Email: <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
24 * School of Computer Science and Engineering
25 * The University of New South Wales
29 * Added by Dale Stephenson
30 * steph@snapserver.com
37 int Kill(char *dev
, int force
, int quiet
)
40 * Nothing fancy about Kill. It just zeroes out a superblock
41 * Definitely not safe.
48 fd
= open(dev
, O_RDWR
|O_EXCL
);
51 fprintf(stderr
, Name
": Couldn't open %s for write - not zeroing\n",
59 fprintf(stderr
, Name
": Unrecognised md component device - %s\n", dev
);
63 rv
= st
->ss
->load_super(st
, fd
, &super
, dev
);
65 rv
= 0; /* ignore bad data in superblock */
66 if (rv
== 0 || (force
&& rv
>= 2)) {
67 mdu_array_info_t info
;
68 info
.major_version
= -1; /* zero superblock */
70 st
->ss
->init_super(st
, &super
, &info
, 0, "", NULL
, NULL
);
71 if (st
->ss
->store_super(st
, fd
, super
)) {
73 fprintf(stderr
, Name
": Could not zero superblock on %s\n",
78 fprintf(stderr
, Name
": superblock zeroed anyway\n");