[Bug 794963] Re: madam allows growing an array beyond metadata size limitations

2011-06-13 Thread slith
Can confirm that this is repeatable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794963 Title: madam allows growing an array beyond metadata size limitations To manage notifications about this

[Bug 794963] Re: madam allows growing an array beyond metadata size limitations

2011-06-10 Thread slith
I probably should have mentioned that the command to grow after replacing each of the siz 2TB HDDs with 3TB HDDs one-by-one, I used the following command to grow the array: sudo mdadm --grow --size=max /dev/md1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 794963] Re: madam allows growing an array beyond metadata size limitations

2011-06-09 Thread slith
Here is what happened... I recently upgraded a system running 6 x 2TB HDDs with an EFI motherboard and 6 x 3TB HDDs. The final step in the process was growing the RAID-5 array using metadata v0.90 (/dev/md1) consisting of 6 component devices of just under 2TB each to use devices of just under 3TB