Did you resize your partition before trying to resize the filesystem with resize2fs? -Andy On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Anyone here use software RAID and use mdadm to expand an array? > > I used to have a RAID0 array with two disks, and tried to grow it... only > to find you can't add devices to a RAID0 (no idea why, it seems like it'd > be the easiest!) Anyway, I had to use the two additional disks to make a > RAID5 array (by splitting them into two partitions each), copy all the > data to THAT one and then grow it using the original RAID devices. > > Yeah, bit of a mess, and I eventually got the RAID5 built, let that run > for a bit to make sure it actually works, then nuked the old RAID0, split > one of the drives into partitions the same size I'm using for the RAID5 > volumes, and added them to the current array. > > That all went well, except when I tried to resize the filesystem, > resize2fs says it's already at maximum. > > I do notice from /proc/mdstat that the array is "reshaping" (and it's > going to take forEVER) and I'm wondering if resize2fs isn't supposed to > work until that's done. > > If that's NOT the case and it's supposed to be able to resize the > filesystem as soon as I've grown the array, then either somethng's wrong > or I've missed something. I've followed the Linux RAID Wiki's instructions > and have no indication of either of those though. > > Anyone? > > > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100831/0413ff6a/attachment-0001.htm