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From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Matt Tehonica <matt.tehonica@mac.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 won't mount after reducing disks from 8 to 6
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:30:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5C7A33.90007@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2D86BF5-AECE-49B3-B139-1CD6375DCFC9@mac.com>

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?


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-17  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-17  0:24 RAID5 won't mount after reducing disks from 8 to 6 Matt Tehonica
2011-02-17  1:30 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2011-02-17  1:39   ` Matt Tehonica
2011-02-17  2:13     ` Phil Turmel
2011-02-17  2:18   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-17  2:43   ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-17  1:42 ` NeilBrown
2011-02-17  1:47   ` Matt Tehonica
2011-02-17  2:14     ` NeilBrown
2011-02-17  2:22       ` Matt Tehonica
2011-02-17  3:06       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-17  3:11     ` Joe Landman

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