On Friday January 30, sandro.dentella@tin.it wrote: > Hi all, > while trying to substitute a failed disk, I'm using the command: > > # mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part6 > > but I get: > > mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part6: No space left on device > > What does it mean? It means, as you guess lower down, that the partition you have provided appears to be too small to be used in the given array. This error should cause a message to appear in the kernel logs something like md1: disk size XXX blocks < array size YYY You might finding it by dmesg | grep 'disk size' or looking in some file in /var/log (depending on which distribution you use. Debian puts it in /var/log/kern.log). > > I don't know how to interpret it. I thought it was the partition that > is not same dime as the other one (disks are different) but the partition > I'm adding is bigger... as you can see further on. Indeed I can: hda6 appears to be 2533.688 - 533.439 = 2000.249 Mb while hdc6 (the new one) is 2536.242 - 533.562 = 2002.680 Mb My only guess is that the kernel hasn't found out about some recent change in partition size. What partition sizes are given in cat /proc/partitions ?? NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
