| NickCharsley |
05-09-2014 05:35 PM |
mdadm partiton not large enough to join array
I've used Linux on and off for the last many years, mainly as dual boot or as Virtual Machines, but when I decided to build a Dev Laptop I though I'd bite the bullet and put Linux on as the base OS.
In the past I've had issues so thought I'd use RAID to give some resilience, after a bit of head scratching I found the following article Multi HDD/SSD Partition Scheme.
In summary it advises building 'nested' arrays so you end up with something like the following
Code:
md6 - /dev/sda1
- /dev/md60
md60 -/dev/sdb1
-/dev/sdc1
I tried that using an Ubuntu LiveCD, and managed to build the arrays fine, however installing to them was a nightmare, and I never managed to get it working (failed during install). I then moved on to try Debian, and although it installed I couldn't get the drivers for my graphics card to work.
So onto the third distro (suse) and although it got father but appeared to fail when it tried to assemble the RAID. So I though I'd simplify it by only creating the top level RAID (md6) with the one partition and with one device (so it didn't think it was degraded).
So I now have a fully working Suse install!!!
However I don't have a RAID. so I tried to assemble the raid,
Code:
mdadm /dev/md6 --add --write-mostly /dev/md60
or (as some one said it worked this way...
Code:
mdadm --add /dev/md6 --write-mostly /dev/md60
also tried with and without --write-mostly but always got
Code:
mdadm: /dev/md60 not large enough to join array
so a quick look at mdadm --detail gave the following...
Code:
/dev/md6:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Sun Apr 27 14:42:13 2014
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 204341248 (194.88 GiB 209.25 GB)
Used Dev Size : 204341248 (194.88 GiB 209.25 GB)
Raid Devices : 1
Total Devices : 1
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Fri May 9 20:38:51 2014
State : clean
Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Name : linux:6
UUID : b24522f2:8622c47b:be61720b:e69b9dfd
Events : 23
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 35 0 active sync /dev/sdc3
and
Code:
/dev/md60:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Fri May 9 20:21:00 2014
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 204343296 (194.88 GiB 209.25 GB)
Used Dev Size : 204343296 (194.88 GiB 209.25 GB)
Raid Devices : 1
Total Devices : 1
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Intent Bitmap : Internal
Update Time : Fri May 9 20:35:21 2014
State : active
Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Name : hotBlack.ons:60 (local to host hotBlack.ons)
UUID : 39249c62:f41412c9:b1149c7d:fe4222a0
Events : 2
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 7 0 active sync /dev/sda7
so that looks like
Code:
md6 Array Size : 204341248 (194.88 GiB 209.25 GB)
md60 Array Size : 204343296 (194.88 GiB 209.25 GB)
so that looks like md60 is 2MB bigger than md6 (which is how I set it up), so how can it be too small?
What am I missing here?
Any advice gratefully received?
Nick(c) |
