Hi On 17/02/15 06:04 PM, o1bigtenor wrote:
Now I used gdisk to set things up so likely that is where I will need to start - - - hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Has anyone done anything like this in the somewhat recent past?
Yes, I faced your problem late last year. You need to prepare your new drive to match existing drive. If the other 3 are not partitioned, leave the new one unpartitioned. Then you have to force it into the array using mdadm tool. I know, I spent says avoiding force until Lennart advised to go that way. Search the tlug old mail for that conversation. If you can't find it, I can look around for precise steps I used to get back up. On transit at the moment so just relying on memory. William
(Wondering if when disk is partitioned that mdadm will happily absorb that disk into the array. Likely will need another reboot too!)
Dee
I use parted or fdisk, I am not familiar with other tools. In the end, what matters is that the partition(s) on the new drive match (equal size or larger) the existing partitions. You will then have to tell mdadm to use the new partitions. It will not "just use them". As Lennart asked; Show us the output of 'cat /proc/mdstat'. Also, please share the output of: parted /dev/sda print free parted /dev/sdb print free parted /dev/sdc print free parted /dev/sdd print free digimer - -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU48nAAAoJECChztQA3mh0FjsP/j0/HQhoe0yI/WBL3xBCVaiE rejYxagfzsmpxkYgOdRHOnuE0wNTUSYT9oTIj1cupj8SiwhtJF6EtJInVWYPvkit LuGQVj1KgtXORDu3rsvES9ZWluX8OQSFcXhxkzC4f51qkWMxMUANkUSuO/idOTCl 3oR/iaBxnG8MggRl0568SCyn9jLXHkcaDDRGd33gggO7wQz6SoPcR30W5LM8Ptnj NkRSoVJZ1gP69YnfWtcCl4uiVuYlrjbgPvidqjNrWb5Gu+uHBxwgqYppJECqyNeq EEZ9KZ9BiGNo6DV/0XgHyJTLssLAenkzs+JyP7Kqg5E97vIhi1jgvcVfTVvzD4d0 ITDvxk1Lx4o6znUsJYuACpP+cbJRQcpOT417jXiprpoJcz/C7orXzi+cBO3KOPWj wvoEkdXwIXa2UiCpmEkZaKuU+sR6RPKLW/OJaQFLorIGJzeKQVp37X2RWvOZXZKA sernbZAI7XhzvErh04Fq99WdsnABllgCWiwTJ4GUvlZdx3EFPjtiU6ZIT1PO2qyX h2QCItZ4ev7QW7sNwb2eW2pcX9yZJzAkA7IMdRbf3TLm7fMnDD9THknC0lu+Qtnh MdZrgM9Mcd8GZcLSggIwLOXS36ISQeA2mWJ3tjhL4W/qADCtX3DQq16rmTU+2HiH sVV4MBxN4BzuAfEp3cuV =68rh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk