Re: sofware raid does not show the full partition size on disk

[Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:08 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
>
> also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [2009.06.11.1526 +0200]:
> > I assume that this is due to open file descriptors; Linux frees
> > diskspace only after a file descriptor is closed, not when the file
> > is unlinked from a directory.
>
> Sorry, I misread. Does
>
>  mdadm -D /dev/md6
>
> reflect the right size?
>

Sorry for the html mail :-(

Yes it persists after reboot and

mdadm -D /dev/md6

does not show the right size either.

# mdadm -D /dev/md6
/dev/md6:
        Version : 00.90.01
  Creation Time : Thu Jan 11 22:49:09 2007
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 28129664 (26.83 GiB 28.80 GB)
    Device Size : 28129664 (26.83 GiB 28.80 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 6
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

    Update Time : Thu Jun 11 19:24:16 2009
          State : clean
 Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

           UUID : f6debdab:76d34e2d:7e8db578:e8db3dc4
         Events : 0.18745511

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       3        8        0      active sync   /dev/hda8
       1      22        8        1      active sync   /dev/hdc8


Thanks

Siju