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I'm having a lot of problems with raid 1 arrays on my server.

Is it possible to split a raid 1 array into two seperate disks, and mount one, or either of them, as regular disks.

The raid 1 devices contain a single ext4 partition, if this is relevant to the question.

And the raid was created as a software raid with mdadm.

The OS is debian 10.

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  • You want to remove the RAID layer? Or tell us about the problems with raid 1 arrays and see if we can help you with that? Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 22:09
  • Does this answer your question? Mount a single hard disk that was part of RAID 1 Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 22:10
  • @Freddy I don't think that's a duplicate. Your suggestion is about using half of a RAID 1 mirror with a missing disk, whereas this seems to be about removing the RAID 1 layer entirely and just mounting the resultant non-RAID filesystem Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 22:11
  • @roaima You are correct. I don't actually know what the issue is. mdadm fails to assemble the raid and there might not be a superblock on it, for some reason - although there should be. This is more a question the answer to which might help me diagnose the problem. Data isn't that important. Commented Oct 12, 2020 at 22:18

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Not exactly what I anticipated doing, but this kind of does the job...

sudo mdadm --create --verbose --force /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=1 /dev/sdc

Note the raid-devices=1, which requires the use of --force due to non-standard configuration.

This permits the user to inspect the contents of /dev/sdc if it was in a raid which broke (as mine did)

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