Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi! I thought the online resize only applies to resizing drbd block layer and resizing the file system. I thought resizing the partition is no problem. So when i set now the old partition size it should work again :-) Stefan Stefan Seifert schrieb: > On Monday 23 November 2009 16:30:23 Stefan Priebe - allied internet ag wrote: > >> I've now done the following: >> 1.) stopped the backup machine >> 2.) upgraded the Raid 10 in that machine (without destroying any data) >> 3.) deleted partition and created new bigger partition on that device >> 4.) Data is still there when i mount the partition i see everything >> 5.) but drbd does not start to sync after starting drbd. >> >> Where has the metadata gone? Shouldn't drbd able to sync now? > > DRBD stores it's meta data at the end of the used device. So it cannot find it > anymore since you moved the end away from the meta data. That's the reason why > one should follow the DRBD user's guide which tells you to do the resize while > drbd is online, so drbd still knows where it's meta data is and can move it to > the new end of the device. Offline resize is much more difficult. > > Regards, > Stefan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user