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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID0 size over 2 TB
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:00:37 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140908170037.451e2376@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140906230928.BB645CEE@pobox.sk>

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On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 23:09:28 +0200 "azurIt" <azurit@pobox.sk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i'm having problems with growing my RAID0 array over 2 TB. I installed two 4 TB drives, created 4 TB partitions but array cannot be resized over 2 TB. Superblock versoin is 0.90 and kernel version is 3.2.53 - according to linux RAID wiki, it should support 4 TB component/array size:
> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_superblock_formats#The_version-0.90_Superblock_Format
> 
> Some more info:
> 
> # mdadm --detail /dev/md2
> /dev/md2:
>         Version : 0.90
>   Creation Time : Tue Sep 28 16:54:04 2010
>      Raid Level : raid1
>      Array Size : 2147483520 (2048.00 GiB 2199.02 GB)
>   Used Dev Size : 2147483520 (2048.00 GiB 2199.02 GB)
>    Raid Devices : 2
>   Total Devices : 2
> Preferred Minor : 2
>     Persistence : Superblock is persistent
> 
>     Update Time : Sat Sep  6 23:04:44 2014
>           State : clean 
>  Active Devices : 2
> Working Devices : 2
>  Failed Devices : 0
>   Spare Devices : 0
> 
>            UUID : 9a363004:ad04abfe:2e31e1c3:caf66df4
>          Events : 0.77066
> 
>     Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
>        0       8       33        0      active sync   /dev/sdc1
>        1       8       49        1      active sync   /dev/sdd1
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> # fdisk /dev/sdd
> 
> WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdd'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

Why are you using "fdisk" even though "fdisk" is telling you not to use it?

What does
  cat /proc/partitions

say about the sizes of the partitions?

NeilBrown

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-06 21:09 RAID0 size over 2 TB azurIt
2014-09-06 21:17 ` RAID0 size over 2 TB - RAID1 azurIt
2014-09-08  7:00 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2014-09-08  7:18   ` RAID0 size over 2 TB azurIt
2014-09-08  7:21     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2014-09-08  7:24       ` azurIt
2014-09-08 18:19         ` Chris Murphy
2014-09-08  7:28     ` NeilBrown
2014-09-08  7:33       ` azurIt
2014-09-08 18:27         ` Chris Murphy
2014-09-08 19:16           ` Chris Murphy
2014-09-08 20:02           ` azurIt

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