I forgot to ask some other relevant questions: Are you using LVM on this array? How are you not seeing the increase in space (are you using df or mdadm --detail to get this information)?
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Dan Graham <graha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andrew, are you using the raid for boot and root? > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Andrew Robinson <and...@boohahaonline.com > > wrote: > >> Hey has anyone run into issues with trying to grow a Linux software >> raid? I’ve just finished syncing all of my data from 3x2TB (in raid 5) to >> 3x3TB (still raid 5). The raid array should show a capacity of approx. 5.5 >> TB, but instead shows only 4. I’ve tried re running the mdadm –grow >> command but with no success. Is there are a hard limit to the size of the >> array in Linux?**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I should mention that each of these drives are formatted as GTP drives, >> with 1 partition of type FD that consumes the entire 2.79 TB of space on >> each drive.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I’ve been using he instructions located at >> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Growing#Expanding_existing_partitionsif >> anyone is curious to what I’ve done so far >> **** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > > -- > One thing you can be sure of. If you throw a loaded gun in a monkey cage, > something bad is going to happen. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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