On 2011-09-15, at 19:50, Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I try to grow the other two partitions (/ and /home), it fails > with device busy: > > # mdadm --grow /dev/md2 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 > mdadm: level of /dev/md2 changed to raid5 > mdadm: Need to backup 128K of critical section.. > mdadm: Cannot set device shape for /dev/md2: Device or resource busy > Bitmap must be removed before shape can be changed > mdadm: aborting level change > You must remove the bitmap first as told using mdadm --grow --bitmap=none > > When the conversion to RAID5 is complete, how can I regenerate the > mdadm.conf to properly reflect the change? > The output of mdadm -Es might be enough for you. -- 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