Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:51:15 +0200 From: "Vikash Badal" <Vikash.Badal@is.co.za> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: growing a graid3 array and growfs not growing .... Message-ID: <740109F1ED7BA14EB02307DEF26487AB1B554BB6@ZABRYSVISEX04.af.didata.local>
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Can someone please advise why growfs would return: growfs: we are not growing (8388607->4194303) ? I have a FreeBSD 7.2 server in a VM. I initially had 5 x 4G disks Created a raid graid3 label datavol da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 I upgraded them to 5 x 8g disks swopped out the virtual disks one at a time graid3 remove -n 0 datavol graid3 insert -n 0 datavol da2 [wait] ...... graid3 remove -n 4 datavol graid3 insert -n 4 datavol da6 [wait] graid3 stop datavol growfs /dev/raid3/datavol error message: growfs: we are not growing (8388607->4194303) ? vix-sw-raid# graid3 list Geom name: datavol State: COMPLETE Components: 5 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 2704170828 Zone64kFailed: 0 Zone64kRequested: 0 Zone16kFailed: 0 Zone16kRequested: 0 Zone4kFailed: 0 Zone4kRequested: 524 Providers: 1. Name: raid3/datavol =20 Mediasize: 34359736320 (32G) =20 Sectorsize: 2048 =20 Mode: r0w0e0 Consumers: 1. Name: da2 =20 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) =20 Sectorsize: 512 =20 Mode: r1w1e1 =20 State: ACTIVE =20 Flags: NONE =20 GenID: 0 =20 SyncID: 1 =20 Number: 0 =20 Type: DATA 2. Name: da3 =20 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) =20 Sectorsize: 512 =20 Mode: r1w1e1 =20 State: ACTIVE =20 Flags: NONE =20 GenID: 0 =20 SyncID: 1 =20 Number: 1 =20 Type: DATA 3. Name: da4 =20 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) =20 Sectorsize: 512 =20 Mode: r1w1e1 =20 State: ACTIVE =20 Flags: NONE =20 GenID: 0 =20 SyncID: 1 =20 Number: 2 =20 Type: DATA 4. Name: da5 =20 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) =20 Sectorsize: 512 =20 Mode: r1w1e1 =20 State: ACTIVE =20 Flags: NONE =20 GenID: 0 =20 SyncID: 1 =20 Number: 3 =20 Type: DATA 5. Name: da6 =20 Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G) =20 Sectorsize: 512 =20 Mode: r1w1e1 =20 State: ACTIVE =20 Flags: NONE =20 GenID: 0 =20 SyncID: 1 =20 Number: 4 =20 Type: PARITY fdisk /dev/raid3/datavol ******* Working on device /dev/raid3/datavol ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=3D1044 heads=3D255 sectors/track=3D63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=3D1044 heads=3D255 sectors/track=3D63 (16065 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found fdisk: /boot/mbr: length must be a multiple of sector size what am I missing ? Please note: This email and its content are subject to the disclaimer as = displayed at the following link http://www.is.co.za/legal/E-mail+Confiden= tiality+Notice+and+Disclaimer.htm. Should you not have Web access, send a= =20mail to disclaimers@is.co.za and a copy will be emailed to you.
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