>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Phil> On 11/09/2015 08:27 AM, Anugraha Sinha wrote: >> I am looping in to Phil explicitly for some help here. >> >> @Phil, Need some help here! Phil> I don't know why it's stuck. This has never happened to me :-). Phil> If omitting the --backup-file fails, I would reboot into a Phil> rescue CD with a recent kernel and mdadm version. I recommend Phil> www.sysrescuecd.ord for such things. Then use mdadm --grow Phil> --continue within the rescue environment. I just did mdadm --grow --continue /dev/md0 and the reshape started up again. I didn't realise that mdadm had to keep going to do the reshape -- it must have died when I logged off last time. So many other operations are handled entirely in the kernel... Peter C -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.data61.csiro.au http://www.ssrg.nicta.com.au Software Systems Research Group/NICTA/Data61 -- 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