On Mon, March 31, 2008 7:07 am, Shane W wrote: > Hello all, > > I had a three drive raid5 array of 750GB drives. Added a > fourth drive and grew the array but the actual size didn't > change. The size wont change until it finishes restriping. All the data needs to be relocated before the new space is available. What does "cat /proc/mdstat" show ?? > Now when I do a mdadm --grow --size max /dev/md0, > I get: > mdadm: Cannot set device size/shape for /dev/md0: Device or > resource busy That is expected. The array is busy restriping (aka reshaping). You cannot change the size of individual devices at this time, not that you really want to. > Is there anything I can do to get the array to 2tb or do I > need to recreate with a 1.x superblock format? Using a different superblock format wouldn't help. What is the current state of the array from /proc/mdstat? NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
