Re: RAID5 won't mount after reducing disks from 8 to 6

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Phil Turmel put forth on 2/16/2011 7:30 PM:
> On 02/16/2011 07:24 PM, Matt Tehonica wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I converted my RAID5 from 8 disks to 6 disks using "mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --array-size" and then "mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --raid-devices=6" and after rebooting, it won't mount.  It has been running fine for about a year.  File system is XFS.  Here is some info on it....
> 
> Did you resize (shrink) the XFS filesystem first?

You can't shrink XFS filesystems.

This has been talked about as a possibility in the future, but AFAIK
there's no code yet.

-- 
Stan
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