[DRBD-user] Offline growth of device

Stefan Seifert nine at detonation.org
Mon May 5 08:47:46 CEST 2008

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On Sunday, 04. May 2008, Oliver Welter wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I try to resize a drbd device using drbd-0.7 and cant get it done.
>
> As I must do a lot of repartitioning on both nodes, I cant grow online.
> I therefore put both modes into standalone mode, detached node 2,
> repartioned the device and grew the underlying raid-device and
> reattached the drbd device - still as Standalone. The raid device shows
> up with the new size, but as soon as I start the drbd device, I see my
> ext3 with the old size.

Did you resize the file system to the new block device size with:
resize2fs /dev/drbd

Regards,
Stefan



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