Philip, Kuai, Op donderdag 23 mei 2024 18:23:31 CEST schreef Phillip Susi: > Richard <richard@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I grew (--grow) the RAID to an smaller size as it was complaining about > > the > > size (no logging of that). > > After the this action the RAID was functioning and fully accessible. > > I think you mean you used -z to reduce the size of the array. It > appears that you are trying to replace the failed drive with one that is > half the size, then shrunk the array, which truncated your filesystem, > which is why you can no longer access it. You can't shrink the disk out > from under the filesystem. > > Grow the array back to the full size of the larger disk and most likely > you should be able to mount the filesystem again. You will need to get > a replacement disk that is the same size as the original that failed if > you want to replace it, or if you can shrink the filesystem to fit on > the new disk, you have to do that FIRST, then shrink the raid array. I followed your advice, and made the array size the same as it used to be. I'm now able to see the data on the partition (RAID) again. Very nice. Thanks a lot for your support. -- Richard
