Thanks Gene and Gary and yes you got it correctly. Two steps resolved my issue. (AH) in case other may need help with same issue can follow.
1- mdadm -G /dev/md(*) -z max 2- resize2fs /dev/md(*) On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 29 July 2015 06:30:46 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > I have 4 partitions in my /dev/sdb total size of a whole drive is 2 TB > > in where main partition is of 1TB in size. > > > > however i want to increase this 1TB partition. therefore i added new > > 3TB /dev/sda and replicated the partition tables with with gdisk. > > > > which worked great. > > > > now the partition that was in the size of 1TB and copied to the new > > drive /dev/sda i deleted the partition. and created the new one with > > increase size of 2TB. > > > > now i have also attached sda 2TB partition with sdb 1TB partition. > > sync is in progress which will probably be synced in few hours. > > > > > > > > My question is if i add another new 3TB drive by replace the old 2TB > > drive. similarly i copy the partition table from gdisk from old 3TB to > > now 3TB. but point of notice is now the size of 1TB partition should > > become 2TB. do you guys think this will happen automatically or i have > > to make some changes in order to grow the size. > > > > Any help/guidance will be highly appreciated. > > You will have to do that by hand. > > > > Thank, > > Yousuf > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201507290934.01962.ghesk...@wdtv.com > >
