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From: Laurent CARON <lcaron@unix-scripts.info>
Subject: Re: Unable to grow RAID 6 array
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 11:02:01 +0200
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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 06:56:53PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> Alternately you could get this latest mdadm from 
>    git://neil.brown.name/mdadm/
> 
> and run the "--grow --size max" command again.  It now updates the device
> size too.
> But John's answer is probably easiest.

Hi,

I did pull the git tree and compile mdadm.

Worked as expected:

# ./mdadm --grow --size max /dev/md2
mdadm: component size of /dev/md2 has been set to 1709210112K

Did then grow the fs. Many thanks.