[DRBD-user] size in drbd.conf and size of drbd0 should be the same?

Alex linux at vfemail.net
Wed Aug 27 09:49:03 CEST 2008

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Hello all,

I have drbd-8.2.6 working on dual-primary configuration, mirroring /dev/hdb1 
from shd1 with /dev/hdc1 from shd2 using internal metadata setup.

hdb on shd1 have 40GB total capacity with 2 slices (hdb1, hdb2), each slice 
20GB
hdc on shd2 have 80GB total capacity with 2 slices (hdc1, hdc2), each slice 
40GB

How can i see /dev/drbd0 size? Which command should i use?

fdisk is reporting 19.3GB for /dev/drbd0 but in drbd.conf i configured a 
smaller size for it (18GB). Is this normal?

[root at shd1 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/drbd0
Disk /dev/drbd0: 19.3 GB, 19327352832 bytes
[root at shd1 ~]#

[root at shd2 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/drbd0
Disk /dev/drbd0: 19.3 GB, 19327352832 bytes
[root at shd2 ~]#

On booth machines, in drbd.conf i have:

 disk {
  on-io-error detach;
  size 18G;
 }

 on shd1 {
  device    /dev/drbd0;
  disk      /dev/hdb1;
  address   192.168.113.6:7789;
  meta-disk internal;
 }

 on shd2 {
  device    /dev/drbd0;
  disk      /dev/hdc1;
  address   192.168.113.7:7789;
  meta-disk internal;
 }

Questions:
1. which size is correct for drbd0 device: 18GB or 19.3GB?
2. which directive is valid to be used inside disk {} section of drbd.conf: 
"size" or "disk-size"?

Regards,
Alx



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