[root@in-rady-neuro9 ~]# df -kl /myarray Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md2 11537161976 162432 10950945196 1% /myarray Should be 7TB of used space. [root@in-rady-neuro9 ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 438960128 sda 8 1 512000 sda1 8 2 51200000 sda2 8 3 387247104 sda3 8 16 1953514584 sdb 8 32 1953514584 sdc 8 48 1953514584 sdd 8 64 1953514584 sde 8 80 1953514584 sdf 8 96 1953514584 sdg 8 112 1953514584 sdh 8 128 1953514584 sdi 253 0 346226688 dm-0 253 1 40992768 dm-1 sd[b-i] are raid devices [root@in-rady-neuro9 ~]# mdadm --detail /dev/md2 /dev/md2: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Fri Dec 16 17:56:14 2011 Raid Level : raid6 Array Size : 11721086976 (11178.10 GiB 12002.39 GB) Used Dev Size : 1953514496 (1863.02 GiB 2000.40 GB) <<<====== Wrong! Should be 7TB of used array space. Raid Devices : 8 Total Devices : 8 Preferred Minor : 2 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Tue Mar 27 14:58:01 2012 State : clean Active Devices : 8 Working Devices : 8 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K UUID : 4fcdcafa:fea0c196:4d5dd1d0:da2b21e5 Events : 0.220864 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 16 0 active sync /dev/sdb 1 8 32 1 active sync /dev/sdc 2 8 48 2 active sync /dev/sdd 3 8 64 3 active sync /dev/sde 4 8 80 4 active sync /dev/sdf 5 8 96 5 active sync /dev/sdg 6 8 112 6 active sync /dev/sdh 7 8 128 7 active sync /dev/sdi [root@in-rady-neuro9 ~]# ________________________________________ From: NeilBrown [neilb@xxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:11 AM To: Paramasivam, Meenakshisundaram Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: mdadm raid6 recovery status On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:22:33 +0000 "Paramasivam, Meenakshisundaram" <mparamas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > #mount /dev/md2 /myarray > mounts fine, however, I now see only 2TB instead of 7 TB for /myarray. I need to get all of the data back and I am stuck here. What exactly do you mean by "see only 2TB"?? The md array is reporting that it is 12TB in size (12000 GB). What reports 2TB? /proc/partitions? df? du? ?/ 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