On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:37:24PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > Hi, all -- > > I finally settled on xfs as the filesystem for my raid5 volume on my > home computer even though I've been a longtime reiserfs lover :-) But, > hey, let's try something new. > > I recently added another device to my md raid5 set and expanded the > device from 8T to 12T, and now I want to grow the filesystem. I remade > the partition and we oughta be good to go: > > diskfarm:root:10:~> parted /dev/md0 print | egrep 'TB|Table|Sector' > Disk /dev/md0: 12.0TB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B > Partition Table: gpt > 1 1049kB 12.0TB 12.0TB xfs Linux filesystem > > When I try xfs_growfs, however, nothing changes: > > diskfarm:root:10:~> df -kh /mnt/4Traid5md/ > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md0p1 7.3T 6.5T 863G 89% /mnt/4Traid5md > diskfarm:root:10:~> xfs_growfs -d /mnt/4Traid5md/ > meta-data=/dev/md0p1 isize=256 agcount=32, agsize=61043072 blks Did parted tell the kernel to reread the partition table? blockdev --getsz /dev/md0p1 will tell us the kernel's view of how big md0p1 is right now. unmount, blockdev --rereadpt /dev/md0, try again(?) --D > = sectsz=4096 attr=2, projid32bit=1 > = crc=0 finobt=0 > data = bsize=4096 blocks=1953377275, imaxpct=5 > = sunit=128 swidth=256 blks > naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=0 > log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=521728, version=2 > = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1 > realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 > data size unchanged, skipping > diskfarm:root:10:~> df -kh /mnt/4Traid5md/ > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md0p1 7.3T 6.5T 863G 89% /mnt/4Traid5md > > I've searched high and low and haven't found any indication of why I > shouldn't be able to grow as long as the partition is large enough, so > now it's time to dive into the mailing list :-) > > Please bcc: me on your replies since I am not subscribed. I promise to > follow up with my ongoing results :-) > > > TIA & HAND > > :-D > -- > David T-G > See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ > See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html