Neil, On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:18 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:29:37 -0700 Simon Matthews > <simon.d.matthews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Problem 1: "Used Dev Size" >> ==================== >> Note: the system is a Gentoo box, so perhaps I have missed a kernel >> configuration option or use flag to deal with large hard drives. >> >> A week or two ago, I resized a raid1 array using 2x3TB drives. I went > > Oopps. That array is using 0.90 metadata which can only handle up to 2TB > devices. The 'resize' code should catch that you are asking the impossible, > but it doesn't it seems. > > You need to simply recreate the array as 1.0. > i.e. > mdadm -S /dev/md5 > mdadm -C /dev/md5 --metadata 1.0 -l1 -n2 --assume-clean Before I do this (tomorrow), do I need to add the partitions to the command: mdadm -C /dev/md5 --metadata 1.0 -l1 -n2 --assume-clean /dev/sdd2 /dev/sdc2 Simon -- 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
