Re: Online resize

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On Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 02:44:17PM +0200, Wayne Gemmell wrote:

> Well that didn't go so well
> 
> On Tuesday 11 March 2008 13:12:19 Robin Hill wrote:
> >  2) Force the OS to be aware of the new partition sizes - either a
> >     reboot or using partprobe.
> >  3) Grow the array (mdadm --grow) - check the manual page for details.
> I ran partprobe and then mdadm --grow --size=max /dev/md4 and nothing 
> happened. Then I decided to reboot thinking that partprobe hadn't picked up 
> that change and now it says that sda6 doesn't have a superblock. Any ideas 
> what went wrong?
> 
What version metadata are you using?  I'm not sure how 1.0 will handle
partition resizes but any other should certainly be okay.  Have you
tried running mdadm -E on each of the component partitions?  I assume
the new partitions are starting from the same position as the old ones?

Cheers,
        Robin
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