Re: cannot add device to partitioned raid6 array

2007-04-01 Thread Florian D.
Neil Brown wrote: Definitely the cause. If you really need to add this array, you may be able to reduce the usage of the array, then reduce the size of the array, then add the drive. Depending on how you have partitioned the array, and how you are using the partitions, you may just need to reduc

Re: cannot add device to partitioned raid6 array

2007-04-01 Thread Florian D.
Neil Brown wrote: On Saturday March 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi list! in short: I created a partitioned raid6 array with 2 missing drives. Now, I want to add a device. It fails with: flockmock ~ # mdadm -a /dev/md_d4 /dev/sdb2 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb2 as 4: Invalid argume

cannot add device to partitioned raid6 array

2007-03-31 Thread Florian D.
hi list! in short: I created a partitioned raid6 array with 2 missing drives. Now, I want to add a device. It fails with: flockmock ~ # mdadm -a /dev/md_d4 /dev/sdb2 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb2 as 4: Invalid argument I think it is the same problem as in: http://marc.info/?l=linux