From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen Subject: Re: RAID5 won't mount after reducing disks from 8 to 6 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:18:57 +0100 Message-ID: <20110217021857.GA17043@www2.open-std.org> References: <4D5C7A33.90007@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D5C7A33.90007@turmel.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel Cc: Matt Tehonica , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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