Hi Neil, On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 02:35:28PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:26:18 +0000 Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry, still no joy: > > > > # echo 309363696 > /sys/block/md2/md/dev-sda3/size > > # cat /sys/block/md2/md/dev-sda3/size > > 309363264 > > Try use "/bin/echo" so you get an error message. > Also try smaller numbers. Can you write anything larger than what is already > there? Increasing by 64 (match the 128 sectors that mdadm wants for > new_offset) should be enough. I can't even increase it by 64 from what it is now: # /bin/echo 309363328 > /sys/block/md2/md/dev-sda3/size # cat /sys/block/md2/md/dev-sda3/size 309363264 In fact I can't increase it by 1, and /bin/echo doesn't say why. Cheers, Andy -- 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