From: Scott Baker <bakers@canbytel.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Readding a drive fails because of wrong size?
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:58:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A43C8C7.7000209@canbytel.com> (raw)
I have a four disk RAID5 array, and one of the HDs got removed from the
array. All four drives are identical in size and partitioning.
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Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 60801 488384032 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 60801 488384032 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/sde: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 60801 488384032 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/sdf: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 1 60801 488384032 fd Linux raid autodetect
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/dev/sde1 needs to get added back into the array, the other three drives
are fine.
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/dev/md8:
Version : 00.90.03
Creation Time : Fri Oct 26 16:00:51 2007
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 1465151808 (1397.28 GiB 1500.32 GB)
Used Dev Size : 488383936 (465.76 GiB 500.11 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 3
Preferred Minor : 8
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Jun 25 11:27:31 2009
State : clean, degraded
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 64K
UUID : 44c3189a:58ffab82:c2c79482:d044a0fb
Events : 0.218148
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1
1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1
2 0 0 2 removed
3 8 81 3 active sync /dev/sdf1
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But when I try and add it to the array it gives me a array that the
partition isn't big enough? Nothing has changed, I haven't formatted or
anything. All I did was replace a SATA cable and now I can't add that drive
back to the array? This server is running CentOS 5.3 with all the updates.
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:./mdadm /dev/md8 --add /dev/sde1
mdadm: /dev/sde1 not large enough to join array
root@white(/tmp/mdadm-2.6.9)
:mdadm --version
mdadm - v2.6.4 - 19th October 2007
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HELP!
next reply other threads:[~2009-06-25 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-25 18:58 Scott Baker [this message]
2009-06-26 0:34 ` Readding a drive fails because of wrong size? NeilBrown
2009-06-26 12:02 ` Benjamin ESTRABAUD
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