Re: Rebuild after a drive replacement

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:04 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, June 9, 2008 6:12 pm, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 08:25 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> >

> I suspect the partition is slightly too small.
> Check the sizes in /proc/partitions.
> 
> hde5 needs to be at least 174851136K.

Well spotted, that man! hde5 is indeed 50000 blocks smaller than the
others. I guess the debian installer must use different calculations
than cfdisk :(

> Newer version of mdadm notice this and report a better
> error message (I think 2.6.3 contains the fix).
> 
> So: you might need to repartition the drive and make hde5 a
> little bigger.

Yup - thanks muchly.. I'll give it a go and report back.

Cheers,
Gavin.


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