On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:53:04 +0200 Markus Irle <tha.bear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Neil, > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:11 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Yes, the metadata has lots the most-significant-bit of the 'size'. > > > > So it should be sufficient to: > > mdadm -G /dev/md2 --size 2930266432 > > > > where the size is calculated as the current "used device size" plus 2^31. > > You could probably just do "--size max" > > > > This will cause a resync of the 2G of data which is probably unnecessary, but > > is awkward to avoid. > > Thanks, will try. > > Resyncing won't overwrite the existing data, will it? No, it won't. It'll just check all the parity blocks are correct. > Sorry for being overly cautious... Not something to apologise for .... NeilBrown > > Cheers, > Markus
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