Re: Why can't I re-add my drive after partition shrink?

[Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@gmail.com>]

On 07/19/2017 06:14 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19 2017, Ram Ramesh wrote:
>
>> Here is my attempt to repeat the steps in my last attempt to remove,
>> repartition, re-add. Last time I did it on /dev/sdb. Now I am going to
>> do it on /dev/sdc. Note that I have not been successful as you see at
>> the end. I am going to keep the array degraded so that I can still get
>> old info from /dev/sdc1, if you need anything else. I will keep it this
>> way till tomorrow and then add the device for md to rebuild. Please ask
>> anything else before that or send me a note to keep the array degraded
>> so that you can examine /dev/sdc1 more.
> Thanks.  I *love* getting all the details.  You cannot send too many
> details!
>
> This:
>> <good device still in md0>
>>> zym [rramesh] 265 > sudo  mdadm --examine /dev/sdb1
>>> /dev/sdb1:
> ..
>>>   Avail Dev Size : 6442188800 (3071.88 GiB 3298.40 GB)
> and this:
>
>> <device just removed and repartitioned>
>>> zym [rramesh] 267 > sudo mdadm --examine /dev/sdc1
>>> /dev/sdc1:
> ...
>>>   Avail Dev Size : 11720780943 (5588.90 GiB 6001.04 GB)
> Shows the key difference.  "Avail Dev Size", aka sb->data_size, is
> wrong.  We can fix it.
>
>> <Cannot re-add!!!!>
>>> zym [rramesh] 270 > sudo mdadm /dev/md0 --re-add /dev/sdc1
>>> mdadm: --re-add for /dev/sdc1 to /dev/md0 is not possible
> Please try
>     sudo mdadm /dev/md0 --re-add /dev/sdc1 --update=devicesize
>
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown

Neil,

Thanks a ton. That does it. It got re-added without any issue. It is 
rebuilding because the array was used to record two TV programs when it 
was in degraded state. But the re-add is accepted.

> zym [rramesh] 274 > sudo mdadm /dev/md0 --re-add /dev/sdc1 
> --update=devicesize
> Size was 11720780943
> Size is 6442188800
> mdadm: re-added /dev/sdc1
> zym [rramesh] 275 > cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] 
> [raid4] [raid10]
> md0 : active raid6 sdc1[10] sdb1[6] sdg1[11] sdd1[12] sdf1[8] sde1[9]
>       12348030976 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 
> [6/5] [UU_UUU]
>       [========>............]  recovery = 42.6% 
> (1316769920/3087007744) finish=292.2min speed=100952K/sec
>       bitmap: 2/23 pages [8KB], 65536KB chunk
>
> unused devices: <none>

Wol,

    If you read this, this may worth a mention on wiki page.

Ramesh