From: Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rebuild after a drive replacement
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:15:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213002919.15461.16.camel@gdh-work> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32774.192.168.1.70.1213002278.squirrel@neil.brown.name>
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:04 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, June 9, 2008 6:12 pm, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 08:25 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> >
> I suspect the partition is slightly too small.
> Check the sizes in /proc/partitions.
>
> hde5 needs to be at least 174851136K.
Well spotted, that man! hde5 is indeed 50000 blocks smaller than the
others. I guess the debian installer must use different calculations
than cfdisk :(
> Newer version of mdadm notice this and report a better
> error message (I think 2.6.3 contains the fix).
>
> So: you might need to repartition the drive and make hde5 a
> little bigger.
Yup - thanks muchly.. I'll give it a go and report back.
Cheers,
Gavin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-09 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-08 20:52 Rebuild after a drive replacement Gavin Hamill
2008-06-08 21:32 ` David Greaves
2008-06-08 22:25 ` NeilBrown
2008-06-09 8:12 ` Gavin Hamill
2008-06-09 9:04 ` NeilBrown
2008-06-09 9:15 ` Gavin Hamill [this message]
2008-06-09 18:56 ` [SOLVED] " Gavin Hamill
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