Hi Neil, For the record: It worked! I grew to "--size max", sync kicked in, but I'm able to mount the volumes and the data's all there. Thanks for the help guys! Cheers, Markus On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
