Re: Buster: problem changing partition size on a RAID 5 array

2017-08-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/08/17 10:04 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/08/2017 à 21:47, Gary Dale a écrit : That still sounds like a bug. If I did a DD from a smaller to a larger hard disk then used gdisk, I'd expect it to see the new drive size and handle it correctly. Gdisk does handle it correctly. It just

Re: Buster: problem changing partition size on a RAID 5 array

2017-08-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/08/2017 à 21:47, Gary Dale a écrit : That still sounds like a bug. If I did a DD from a smaller to a larger hard disk then used gdisk, I'd expect it to see the new drive size and handle it correctly. Gdisk does handle it correctly. It just does not correct it automatically. If you ask

Re: Buster: problem changing partition size on a RAID 5 array

2017-08-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/13/2017 09:32 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I just added another drive to my RAID 5 array, so it now has 6. Unfortunately I can't seem to use the extra space. After the array finished reshaping, I tried to grow the file system but resize2fs complained that the file system was already the maximum s

Re: Buster: problem changing partition size on a RAID 5 array

2017-08-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/08/17 01:48 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Gary Dale > wrote: The reason its rare is more likely that Linux hasn't been able to boot from mdadm partitions until recently. IIRC it's been available in Debian since lenn

Re: Buster: problem changing partition size on a RAID 5 array

2017-08-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > The reason its rare is more likely that Linux hasn't been able to boot > from mdadm partitions until recently. IIRC it's been available in Debian since lenny in 2009. But yes, if you began using linux in, say, 1994 or so, that's "recently"...

Re: Buster: problem changing partition size on a RAID 5 array

2017-08-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/08/17 01:58 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 14/08/2017 à 06:32, Gary Dale a écrit : Disk /dev/md1: 39068861440 sectors, 18.2 TiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): EFF29D11-D982-4933-9B57-B836591DEF02 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, las

Re: Buster: problem changing partition size on a RAID 5 array

2017-08-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/08/2017 à 06:32, Gary Dale a écrit : Disk /dev/md1: 39068861440 sectors, 18.2 TiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): EFF29D11-D982-4933-9B57-B836591DEF02 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 31255089118