Hi, I'm trying to resize/reshape some of my arrays: md1 : active raid1 sdc5[1] 9767424 blocks [2/1] [_U] bitmap: 48/150 pages [192KB], 32KB chunk % mdadm --grow --size max /dev/md1 mdadm: Cannot set device size for /dev/md1: Device or resource busy and dmesg says: md: couldn't update array info. -16 md2 : active raid5 sdc2[6](S) sde2[3] sdg1[1] sdf3[4] sdd1[5] sdb1[2] sda1[0] 945625280 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] bitmap: 0/181 pages [0KB], 512KB chunk % mdadm --grow -n 7 /dev/md2 mdadm: Need to backup 1920K of critical section.. mdadm: Cannot set device size/shape for /dev/md2: Device or resource busy and dmesg says: md: couldn't update array info. -16 % uname -a Linux frosties 2.6.29.4-frosties-1 #8 Sun Jun 7 00:48:55 CEST 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux % mdadm --version mdadm - v2.6.9 - 10th March 2009 Anyone have an idea what is wrong there? MfG Goswin -- 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