[solved] how do you delete drives?

[sam_roberts30]

Basically I am taking the Unraid offline for a while and using my drives for something else. How do I delete the drives from unraid completely? I don't care about losing the data on the drives.

 

I want to basically put the Unraid back to how it was when I first booted it so when I get some more drives I can start building a new server. Do I just reinstall Unraid on the usb stick?

[Joe L.]

Basically I am taking the Unraid offline for a while and using my drives for something else. How do I delete the drives from unraid completely? I don't care about losing the data on the drives.

 

I want to basically put the Unraid back to how it was when I first booted it so when I get some more drives I can start building a new server. Do I just reinstall Unraid on the usb stick?

That will do it. 

 

If you don't want to re-install

Stop the array

Un-assign all the drives

log in via telnet or on the system console

type

initconfig

Respond with

Yes

(Capital "Y", and lower case "es")

 

All drives will be "deleted" although the data on them will still exist on them.  you can re-use them as needed elsewhere.

If you wish to completely zero them out, you can use the

preclear_disk.sh /dev/sdX

script.

 

Much quicker... To simply erase their MBR, so you can partition them in another use:

preclear_disk.sh -z /dev/sdX

will do it.