From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Laurent CARON <lcaron@unix-scripts.info>
Subject: Re: Unable to grow RAID 6 array
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:58:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD37C24.6040307@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110518092327.airaicao@trusted.unix-scripts.info>
On 18/05/2011 08:31, Laurent CARON wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm basically trying to grow a RAID-6 array (5 disks).
>
> I did change the disks one by one (change, rebuild, ...).
>
> I finally did delete the last partition (the one I wanted to enlarge and
> recreated it with the exactly same start but different end).
>
> When I try to grow the array, I get:
>
> # mdadm --grow --size max /dev/md2
> mdadm: component size of /dev/md2 has been set to 732458496K
[...]
>
> If any of you can help me to sort this out It would be nice.
You need to tell mdadm the underlying devices have grown; do this by
stopping the array then assembling it again with --update=devicesize.
Then when you --grow --size max you will get the result you are looking for.
Cheers,
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-18 7:31 Unable to grow RAID 6 array Laurent CARON
2011-05-18 7:58 ` John Robinson [this message]
2011-05-18 8:56 ` NeilBrown
2011-05-18 9:02 ` Laurent CARON
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