From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
Cc: Matt Tehonica <matt.tehonica@mac.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 won't mount after reducing disks from 8 to 6
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:43:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5C8B49.6050206@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5C7A33.90007@turmel.org>
Phil Turmel put forth on 2/16/2011 7:30 PM:
> On 02/16/2011 07:24 PM, Matt Tehonica wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I converted my RAID5 from 8 disks to 6 disks using "mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --array-size" and then "mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-devices=6" and after rebooting, it won't mount. It has been running fine for about a year. File system is XFS. Here is some info on it....
>
> Did you resize (shrink) the XFS filesystem first?
You can't shrink XFS filesystems.
This has been talked about as a possibility in the future, but AFAIK
there's no code yet.
--
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-17 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-17 0:24 RAID5 won't mount after reducing disks from 8 to 6 Matt Tehonica
2011-02-17 1:30 ` Phil Turmel
2011-02-17 1:39 ` Matt Tehonica
2011-02-17 2:13 ` Phil Turmel
2011-02-17 2:18 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-17 2:43 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2011-02-17 1:42 ` NeilBrown
2011-02-17 1:47 ` Matt Tehonica
2011-02-17 2:14 ` NeilBrown
2011-02-17 2:22 ` Matt Tehonica
2011-02-17 3:06 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-17 3:11 ` Joe Landman
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