Thanks all, My file system was a total mess, everything dropped into lost + found. I've put everything back into what I think are the right directory structures, and nice to not have all my data lost (i think)... but i may just do a clean install of a new os once i have it up, running, and grown again... many thanks to all... (and btw, it's growing nicely with ubuntu 18 at the moment...) allie On 4/7/2020 4:08 PM, antlists wrote: > On 07/04/2020 14:19, Alexander Shenkin wrote: >> Re re-growing, I was hoping that running on a newer mdadm (4.1) might >> fix the problem, and if i still encountered it, perhaps running the >> following might unstick it: >> >> echo frozen > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action >> echo reshape > /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action >> >> But, I personally have no idea what happened (really), nor why...:-( > > iirc pretty much all these reports come from oldish Ubuntu systems ... > > What happened *could* be that you have an updated franken-kernel, plus > an old mdadm, and the mess needs an Igor to stitch it all together... > > If you ARE going to try the grow again, I'd use an up-to-date recovery > system to run the grow, and then reboot back in to the old Ubuntu once > your system is back. > > And seriously think about upgrading your distro to the latest LTS. > > Cheers, > Wol
