dm-raid and resizing

David Thornton northdot9-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 13 22:39:01 UTC 2013


Can you post your md config aswell?

David


On 9/13/13, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I recently upgraded a couple of RAID 2TB drives to some 3TB drives using
> the format
> Shutdown, pull old drive 1, start degraded
> Add new drive 1 to RAID, wait for sync/rebuild
> Shutdown, pull old drive 2, add new drive 2 to RAID, wait for sync/rebuild
>
>
> I had a really small /boot partition, so for the new drives used a larger
> set of partitions for /dev/md0
>
> However, for whatever reason, I can't grow to the full partition size.
>
> mdadm --grow --size=max only gives me around 750MB, even though the
> component partitions (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1) are 1200MB.
>
>
> Any ideas why it won't use the full capacity?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> --
> Tyler Aviss
> Systems Support
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>
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> to them very quickly"
>

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