From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@keldix.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: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:18:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110217021857.GA17043@www2.open-std.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5C7A33.90007@turmel.org>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 08:30:27PM -0500, Phil Turmel wrote:
> 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?
I think it is not possible to shrink an XFS partition.
best regards
keld
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-17 2:18 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 [this message]
2011-02-17 2:43 ` Stan Hoeppner
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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