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Old 03-06-2011, 02:52 PM   #1
Sjonnie48
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Problems with extending a raid5 array


Today I wanted to extend my raid array with one disk, but I made a major error. I forgot partition the new disk to utilize the full 640GB.
I used the following commands to extend the array:

Code:
mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdf
mdadm --grow --raid-devices=6 /dev/md0
xfs_growfs /dev/md0
After noticing that something was wrong I used these commands to remove the new disk:

Code:
mdadm -f /dev/md0 /dev/sdf
mdadm -r /dev/md0 /dev/sdf
The array has not been damaged, but I have the following situation:

Code:
#mdadm -E /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
          Magic : a92b4efc
        Version : 00.91.00
           UUID : 8be5b829:959ee00d:01f9e43d:ac30fbff (local to host server)
  Creation Time : Fri Sep  4 12:05:37 2009
     Raid Level : raid5
  Used Dev Size : 625129216 (596.17 GiB 640.13 GB)
     Array Size : 3125646080 (2980.85 GiB 3200.66 GB)
   Raid Devices : 6
  Total Devices : 6
Preferred Minor : 0

  Reshape pos'n : 201877120 (192.53 GiB 206.72 GB)
  Delta Devices : 1 (5->6)

    Update Time : Sun Mar  6 20:53:21 2011
          State : active
 Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
 Failed Devices : 1
  Spare Devices : 0
       Checksum : 4e456079 - correct
         Events : 18015

         Layout : left-symmetric
     Chunk Size : 64K

      Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
this     0       8        1        0      active sync   /dev/sda1

   0     0       8        1        0      active sync   /dev/sda1
   1     1       8       17        1      active sync   /dev/sdb1
   2     2       8       33        2      active sync   /dev/sdc1
   3     3       8       49        3      active sync   /dev/sdd1
   4     4       8       65        4      active sync   /dev/sde1
   5     5       0        0        5      faulty removed
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How can I repair this situation? Before starting this adventure I made a back-up of everything that was stored in the raid array.
 
  


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