Before, I had four 1TB drives on a RAID array. I added two more 1TB drives to the array, let it do its rebuild and it is not showing the size increase when I mount it.
jacks@Gen2:~$ df -h /mnt/storage
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 2.7T 2.4T 219G 92% /mnt/storage
And mdadm says the size is 5TB (in the array size section)
jacks@Gen2:~$ sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md1
/dev/md1:
Version : 00.90
Creation Time : Sun Jan 31 21:02:19 2010
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 4883812480 (4657.57 GiB 5001.02 GB)
Used Dev Size : 976762496 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
Raid Devices : 6
Total Devices : 6
Preferred Minor : 1
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Mon Mar 28 17:26:27 2011
State : clean
Active Devices : 6
Working Devices : 6
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 64K
UUID : dd0366aa:5d8c42d0:1568936c:fdc60ad9 (local to host Gen2)
Events : 0.148852
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 48 0 active sync /dev/sdd
1 8 64 1 active sync /dev/sde
2 8 80 2 active sync /dev/sdf
3 8 96 3 active sync /dev/sdg
4 8 128 4 active sync /dev/sdi
5 8 112 5 active sync /dev/sdh
What am I doing wrong?
Also, here is mdadm.conf
jacks@Gen2:~$ cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
# mdadm.conf
#
# Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file.
#
# by default, scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) for MD superblocks.
# alternatively, specify devices to scan, using wildcards if desired.
DEVICE partitions
# auto-create devices with Debian standard permissions
CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes
# automatically tag new arrays as belonging to the local system
HOMEHOST <system>
# instruct the monitoring daemon where to send mail alerts
MAILADDR root
# definitions of existing MD arrays
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=4defdfb7:b0e9caeb:a8118f28:a56b3edc
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid5 num-devices=6 UUID=dd0366aa:5d8c42d0:1568936c:fdc60ad9
# This file was auto-generated on Thu, 13 May 2010 22:57:02 -0400
# by mkconf $Id$
Best Answer
You'll need to expand the filesystem to fit the new size of the array. Depends which file system is in use, but for ext2/3 you'll unmount the disk then use
resize2fs /dev/md1
- with no other arguments it will automatically resize to fill the available space.