Thanks ahead for any help.
My original setup was an Areca 1220 RAID card with (5) 2TB drives in RAID 5 with a hot spare, making only 4 of them part of the array for a total of 6TB. I then created an LVM2 volume and mounted it as /storage (my root is a separate drive). I formated the LVM2 volume as EXT4.
A few days ago, I hooked up another 2TB (exact same model) drive, the card found it, I was able to initialize it (actually had to set it to 7999GB for some silly reason) and was able to expand my RAID volume just fine.
I found this guy: http://causton.net/areca.shtml had a nearly identical setup, so I tried following his instructions, but when I get to pvdisplay it still says there is only the original amount of space available. Here is the output of pvdisplay:
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb1
VG Name grp0
PV Size 5.46 TiB / not usable 3.81 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)`
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 1430510`
Free PE 0`
Allocated PE 1430510`
PV UUID n3Jzyl-nWUw-lKGC-KiJb-7yUu-3jkI-GOOytf`
So you can see there is 0 free PE when, to my understanding, there should be some.
I also found other people who had similar issues on various forums, including this one, but none of their advice helped either, and I actually got to the point where I couldn't mount the volume anymore, but was able to revert back to before I goofed.
I have tried rebooting, upgrading the RAID firmware, manually setting the PE size, and even seeing if the file system would increase automagically, nothing worked. Another fun thing, parted (and gparted) show 8TB available, but says that it cannot manage LVM partions, so no apparent luck there.
For good measure, here is lvdisplay:
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/grp0/vol0
VG Name grp0
LV UUID cQ2Eqv-qMDV-xa7D-cMLA-EU1i-3pKg-iJQ9gz
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 5.46 TiB
Current LE 1430510
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 251:0
And vgdisplay:
--- Volume group ---
VG Name grp0
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 18
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 5.46 TiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 1430510
Alloc PE / Size 1430510 / 5.46 TiB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID zqKhpV-j7fi-IeIU-A4aV-0fDo-YWHF-C5M0il
Also, parted:
Model: Areca ARC-1220-VOL#00 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 7999GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 6000GB 6000GB lvm
And another strange thing, when I run pvscan I get this, and I don't get why:
PV /dev/sdb1 VG grp0 lvm2 [5.46 TiB / 0 free]
Total: 1 [1.46 TiB] / in use: 1 [1.46 TiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
If there is anything else I can provide, please let me know.
Thanks
Best Answer
Your hardware RAID volume is exposed to your system as /dev/sdb. If you had created your LVM physical volume directly on sdb, then running pvresize on it would have picked up the space you added.
Instead of directly using sdb you created a partition, sdb1, and used that. That partition is still 6000GB. You'll have to delete the partition and recreate it using all 7999GB. The tool I recommend for manipulating GUID partition tables is gpt fdisk (aka gdisk). Below are the steps you'll need to take. Verify that you have a good backup of all your data before doing this.
After rebooting, you should be able to run pvresize on /dev/sdb1 and have it detect the additional space.
This kind of headache is why I've learned not to partition devices when I don't have to.