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cbdejavu
Jul 07, 2017Aspirant
Added a new drive but no space has been added to the X-RAID data volume.
So I am running OS 6.7.5. I created a new clean system with 3 - 3tb HDD. It created a RAID 5 X-RAID setup. The initial data volume size was around 5.4TB (essentially 6tb of usable space). I ad...
jak0lantash
Jul 08, 2017Mentor
Unless your volume is fully allocated, no need to run balances, it's irrelevant in the context.
Download the logs again and check mdstat.log.
Download the logs again and check mdstat.log.
cbdejavu
Jul 09, 2017Aspirant
Thanks for your input. It looks like it finally sync'd up. I guess the key was removing that drive, wiping the partition and then lettting the system try again. I'm going to be adding one more drive to fill the last slot and it is a 5tb drive. I'm hoping that last drive will go more smoothly.
Here is the mdstat.log as of now. It looks like the id 4 drive which had been tagged spare is completely removed from the table and this drive became id 5 and is now in sync and behaving as expected. This shouldn't impact my adding a 6th and final drive should it?
Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md1 : active raid10 sde2[4] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] sda2[0]
1308160 blocks super 1.2 512K chunks 2 near-copies [5/5] [UUUUU]
md127 : active raid5 sde3[5] sda3[0] sdd3[3] sdc3[2] sdb3[1]
11701667328 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
4190208 blocks super 1.2 [4/4] [UUUU]
unused devices: <none>
/dev/md/0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Sat Jul 1 15:59:01 2017
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 4190208 (4.00 GiB 4.29 GB)
Used Dev Size : 4190208 (4.00 GiB 4.29 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Sun Jul 9 22:26:46 2017
State : clean
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Name : 33eac487:0 (local to host 33eac487)
UUID : f0304e95:a23f910f:8a4d9014:e240a339
Events : 204
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1
3 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1
/dev/md/data-0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Sat Jul 1 15:59:16 2017
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 11701667328 (11159.58 GiB 11982.51 GB)
Used Dev Size : 2925416832 (2789.89 GiB 2995.63 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Sun Jul 9 22:26:47 2017
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 64K
Name : 33eac487:data-0 (local to host 33eac487)
UUID : ce88fd0c:7149dc6f:3b995bfe:c26d39a2
Events : 93358
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 3 0 active sync /dev/sda3
1 8 19 1 active sync /dev/sdb3
2 8 35 2 active sync /dev/sdc3
3 8 51 3 active sync /dev/sdd3
5 8 67 4 active sync /dev/sde3
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