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From: Arnau Bria <arnau@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:46:03
Message-Id: 20071021223051.30c963ac@pataki.bogus.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 1 problems by Mike Williams
1 On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:42:57 +0100
2 Mike Williams wrote:
3
4 > On Sunday 21 October 2007 20:29:47 Arnau Bria wrote:
5 [...]
6 > Yeah, you can't reduce the filesystem online. The RAIDing shrinks the
7 > space available for the filesystem slightly. I don't know why, but
8 > I've had the same problem before.
9 thanks for your explanation.
10
11 > > > mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/hdh3
12 > > >
13 > > > Then make sure hdh3's partition type is 'fd' raid autodetect.
14 > >
15 > > Yes it is.
16 > Was it before, or did mdadm ignore it/kick it out for some reason?
17 > dmesg | grep hdh
18
19 hdh: Maxtor 7Y250P0, ATA DISK drive
20 hdh reduced to Ultra33 mode.
21 hdh: max request size: 128KiB
22 hdh: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(33)
23 hdh: cache flushes supported
24 hdh: hdh1 hdh2 hdh3 hdh4 < hdh5 hdh6 >
25 md: invalid raid superblock magic on hdh3
26 md: hdh3 has invalid sb, not importing!
27
28
29 Let me ask you one more thing. I have this device:
30
31 md3 : active raid1 hdh6[1]
32 98727360 blocks [2/1] [_U]
33
34 And I'd like to add hdf6, and then sync but against it (I mean, make
35 hdf6 "primary" and copy its data to hdh6).
36
37 What steps should I follow?
38
39 TIA,
40 Arnau
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