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Friday, July 25, 2014

Stubborn Stains? or Stale MetaData?

Ever run into that issue where you had a stubborn stain?  Sure we used some detergent to clean up the issue.  Well nothing is about as stubborn on Storage Spaces as stale metadata.  So what to use?

Well I ran across the issue in my lab as I was attempting to reproduce a customer issue.  I had to quickly dismantle my clustered storage JBOD and purpose it.  So what to do?  After an attempt to change the read-only and then fight.  I turned to TechNet and found this nice script.

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Completely-Clearing-an-ab745947

Now to be fair and quote the article:

** DATA LOSS WILL OCCUR - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK **

So please consider this before using.

However in my situation this was great.  I ran it and in less than 2.3 minutes I had my drives back into an empty and ready state.  Definitely a tool I am putting in the tool box.

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