On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > Ok, I thought you had it clear how you were going to resize the raid, > and needed help resizing the filesystem that already existed on top of > the RAID. I interpreted Mark's instructions as operating under that > impression, too. > > Are you saying you don't already have a partition table sitting on top > of /dev/md? ? > OK, I'm getting a little confused because I am Mark. Maybe you meant Neil above?
Anyway, yes, my question in the title is still the question. If, as I understand reading between the lines, that the mdadm conversion from RAID-1 to RAID-5 leaves me with a 250GB RAID-5 then how do I make it a 500GB RAID-5? My assumption right now is that mdadm won't change the partition sizing so what I need to do is just resize the filesystem and (I think) what I want are the right commands to run with something like resize2fs, where you check, then resize, then check again: e2fsck -f /dev/md6 resize2fs /dev/md6 e2fsck -f /dev/md6 However one site I found said to convert it to ext2 first - removing the journal - and then adding the journal back in later. - Mark