systemctl doesn't interpret mdadm-grow-continue@.service correctly due to the wrong argument provided in [service], it should be corrected %I as %i. Otherwise, if the service cannot start by systemctl and the reshap progress would be stuck all time when grows array from raid1 to raid5. reproduce steps: ./mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l1 -b internal -n2 /dev/loop[0-1] ./mdadm --grow /dev/md0 -l5 -n3 -a /dev/loop2 Signed-off-by: Zhilong Liu <zlliu@xxxxxxxx> --- systemd/mdadm-grow-continue@.service | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/systemd/mdadm-grow-continue@.service b/systemd/mdadm-grow-continue@.service index 5c667d2..882bc0b 100644 --- a/systemd/mdadm-grow-continue@.service +++ b/systemd/mdadm-grow-continue@.service @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Description=Manage MD Reshape on /dev/%I DefaultDependencies=no [Service] -ExecStart=BINDIR/mdadm --grow --continue /dev/%I +ExecStart=BINDIR/mdadm --grow --continue /dev/%i StandardInput=null StandardOutput=null StandardError=null -- 2.10.2 -- 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