I currently have a soft raid 6 setup using mdadm and lvm. I'm trying to grow the raid 6, but am having issues. I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10b, as in hopes of a kernel upgrade, it would fix my issue. However, I'm still unable to expand my raid.
If I cannot expand my raid, I'm open to other suggestions, possibly creating a mirrored raid and then adding it to the raid 6 to appear as 1 drive..? Here are the steps I took
copied the partions from the current to the new
Code:
sfdisk -d /dev/sdc | sfdisk /dev/sda
sfdisk -d /dev/sdc | sfdisk /dev/sdb
added the two drives to the raid
Code:
mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sda1
mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1
set the max size
Code:
mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --size=max
then tried to grow the raid by doing
Code:
mdadm --grow /dev/md0 /dev/sda1
mdadm --grow /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1
on both of those lines, i got this error
Code:
mdadm: can only add devices to linear arrays
I've tried searching around for possible solutions, but have been unlucky in my search.
