[DRBD-user] Re: How to resize a drbd block device with "drbdadm resize"

Jérôme Augé jerome.auge at gmail.com
Thu May 17 15:34:54 CEST 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


2007/5/15, Jérôme Augé <jerome.auge at gmail.com>:
>
> What is the correct way to perform a resize with `drbdadm resize' ? does it
> only works on top of LVM backing storage devices ? I end up thinking that
> drbd is not getting the new sdc1 size correctly/in real time after
> deleting/re-creating the partition.
>

Ok, I just figured out that the `sdc1' block device size is not
updated after the fdisk: `fdisk -l /dev/sdc' reports the updated
partition table, but `fdisk -s /dev/sdc1' keep reporting the old size
for the block device, as long as it's held open by a process, I guess.

Regards,
Jérôme Augé



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