Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:57:41 +1000 | Subject | Re: cannot add device to partitioned raid6 array |
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On Saturday March 31, flockmock@gmx.at wrote: > hi list! > > in short: > I created a partitioned raid6 array with 2 missing drives. Now, I want to add a device. It fails with: > flockmock ~ # mdadm -a /dev/md_d4 /dev/sdb2 > mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb2 as 4: Invalid argument
Thanks for the detailed problem report.
I think the cause of the error is that /dev/sdb2 is too small. It needs to be at least 490030594 sectors. How big is it?
Yes, both the kernel an mdadm should handle this case better. I have made a note to look into this.
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