> CC: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:18:11 +0200 "azurIt" <azurit@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > CC: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 23:09:28 +0200 "azurIt" <azurit@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> i'm having problems with growing my RAID0 array over 2 TB. I installed two 4 TB drives, created 4 TB partitions but array cannot be resized over 2 TB. Superblock versoin is 0.90 and kernel version is 3.2.53 - according to linux RAID wiki, it should support 4 TB component/array size: >> >> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_superblock_formats#The_version-0.90_Superblock_Format >> >> >> >> Some more info: >> >> >> >> # mdadm --detail /dev/md2 >> >> /dev/md2: >> >> Version : 0.90 >> >> Creation Time : Tue Sep 28 16:54:04 2010 >> >> Raid Level : raid1 >> >> Array Size : 2147483520 (2048.00 GiB 2199.02 GB) >> >> Used Dev Size : 2147483520 (2048.00 GiB 2199.02 GB) >> >> Raid Devices : 2 >> >> Total Devices : 2 >> >> Preferred Minor : 2 >> >> Persistence : Superblock is persistent >> >> >> >> Update Time : Sat Sep 6 23:04:44 2014 >> >> State : clean >> >> Active Devices : 2 >> >> Working Devices : 2 >> >> Failed Devices : 0 >> >> Spare Devices : 0 >> >> >> >> UUID : 9a363004:ad04abfe:2e31e1c3:caf66df4 >> >> Events : 0.77066 >> >> >> >> Number Major Minor RaidDevice State >> >> 0 8 33 0 active sync /dev/sdc1 >> >> 1 8 49 1 active sync /dev/sdd1 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> # fdisk /dev/sdd >> >> >> >> WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdd'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. >> > >> >Why are you using "fdisk" even though "fdisk" is telling you not to use it? >> > >> >What does >> > cat /proc/partitions >> > >> >say about the sizes of the partitions? >> > >> >NeilBrown >> > >> >> >> >> I, of course, didn't use fdisk to create partitions - they were created using cgdisk, but it's graphical tool so i wasn't able to send output from it, so i get output from fdisk to prove, that partitions are large enough. > >Yet fdisk *didn't* prove that the partitions are large enough - it said the >partitions were: > >/dev/sdd1 1 4294967295 2147483647+ ee GPT > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > >2 Gig. > >And /proc/partitions tells me: > >> >> >> # cat /proc/partitions >> major minor #blocks name >> >> 9 2 2147483520 md2 >> 8 32 3907018584 sdc >> 8 33 2147483647 sdc1 >> 8 48 3907018584 sdd >> 8 49 2147483647 sdd1 > >that the partitions are 2Gig. You need to sort the partition size out. I >cannot help you. I have no experience with GPT. Maybe a reboot? > >NeilBrown > This is really strange, here is what cgdisk is reporting: http://imgur.com/U8VnAdM -- 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