From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rdc Subject: Re: MD Raid5 rebuild problems - md: sde has invalid sb, not importing! Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:35:53 +0200 Message-ID: <200708172135.53895.denrdc@gmail.com> References: <200708162358.51671.denrdc@gmail.com> <18116.62462.616627.109914@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18116.62462.616627.109914@notabene.brown> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Friday 17 August 2007 03:03:58 you wrote: > > Very odd.. > Please report which kernel version and mdadm version you are using, > and the exact sizes of each of the devices in the array (e.g. cat > /proc/partitions). > I am using 2.6.22-gentoo-r3 (but within an hour i am going to try 2.6.22 vanilla, to be sure), mdadm 2.6.2 The partition ( well, whole disks actually, i created a raid5 over the complete disks ) explains it all : 8 16 244198584 sdb 8 32 244198584 sdc 8 48 244198584 sdd 8 64 244197527 sde 8 80 244198584 sdf 8 96 244198584 sdg Seems the disk i am trying to add is slightly smaller. Strange thing is, these disks have been running in a raid5 array for over a year, and are all the same make model & firmware. How can it be that this disk "shrunk" a bit ? Kind regards den_RDC