Re: Raid 5 Array

[Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>]

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On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:56:29 -0700
Marcus <nexuslite@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks! resizing the partition first worked. I had to use fdisk
> instead of cfdisk though because my partition didn't start at the
> beginning of the drive it started 17 blocks in.

Use "Reply to all" properly in your client, don't just drop all "CC:" at
will, people who tried to help you might be interested to know that the
problem is solved and what was the solution.

> 
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru> wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 10:46:23 -0700
> > Marcus <nexuslite@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I provided you all relevant information if you payed attention to
> >> sizes and the fact that I stated that I can add a new partition to the
> >> device you would have realized that I have already applied grow to the
> >> raid.
> >>
> >> 1465159552 raid size
> >> 976767808 partition size
> >>
> >> See how partition is smaller than raid by about 500GB?
> >
> > Then why not run "cfdisk /dev/md2" (I recommend the version from "GNU
> > fdisk"), notice that you have a 900GB partition there and 500 GB of free
> > space, then resize the partition?
> >
> >> nexuslite@ubuntu:~$ resize2fs -p /dev/md2p1
> >> resize2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
> >> The filesystem is already 244191952 blocks long.  Nothing to do!
> >>
> >> There is the exact message resize2fs is returning. 244191968 is the
> >> current end block of the partition. parted also shows 244191968 as the
> >> maximum block size for a partition. There are no related dmesg because
> >> it is not an error it is just undesired results.
> >
> > You don't seem to understand the difference between /dev/md2
> > and /dev/md2p1. And also that resize2fs will not resize md2p1, it will
> > only amend the ext* filesystem so that it takes all of md2p1.
> >
> > --
> > With respect,
> > Roman
> >


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With respect,
Roman

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