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I have a raid0/1 on lvm logical volumes. I resized the logical volumes. Now I want to resize the raid to use the complete logical volumes. This can be done with

mdadm /dev/md? --grow -z newsize

When I do only

mdadm /dev/md? --grow

I get mdadm: no changes to --grow

But somehow I can't figure out how to calculate the newsize argument. Is there a way to tell mdadm to grow to the biggest possible size? If not, how do I calculate the biggest possible size of the raid to use for the newsize argument?

johannes
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Try this: mdadm /dev/md0 --grow --size=max

http://linux.die.net/man/8/mdadm

-z, --size=
Amount (in Kibibytes) of space to use from each drive in RAID1/4/5/6. This must be a multiple of the chunk size, and must leave about 128Kb of space at the end of the drive for the RAID superblock. If this is not specified (as it normally is not) the smallest drive (or partition) sets the size, though if there is a variance among the drives of greater than 1%, a warning is issued.

This value can be set with --grow for RAID level 1/4/5/6. If the array was created with a size smaller than the currently active drives, the extra space can be accessed using --grow. The size can be given as max which means to choose the largest size that fits on all current drives.

Zoredache
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