From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konstantin Svist Subject: Re: messed up changing chunk size Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:29:26 -0700 Message-ID: <4C454246.3030703@gmail.com> References: <4C439D19.4070906@gmail.com> <4C44939A.1060200@gmail.com> <4C4525E8.2010702@relevad.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C4525E8.2010702@relevad.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 07/19/2010 09:28 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Can someone confirm that this command should work to revert the size? > mdadm --grow -z 879100608 --backup-file=/root/grow_md0_size_revert.bak > /dev/md0 Finally sat down and thought about it - created a temporary raid using /dev/ram## and copied some files to it, did the same operations on it. Amazingly, all the files came back. Will see if the real thing works too