Re: mdadm: Automatically determine maximum possible size for --grow?

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On Thursday May 19, Mario.Holbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> would it be very hard for mdadm to determine the maximum size a given
> RAID can be grown to automagically like with --create?
> All the resize tools I know about can do this. And I'm quite sure this
> could help the average user who just replaced his disks with bigger
> ones.

I see it isn't in the man page, but
   --grow --size=max
works.

> 
> And btw. - do I need a 2.6 kernel to grow a RAID1's size or does this
> work with 2.4 too?

2.4 doesn't support online --grow.  You need 2.6.

NeilBrown
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