[RAID Size Issue] Size incorrect after fresh disk install
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:06 amHi everyone,
First of all thank you very much to the contributors on this forum - I've learned a lot!
Basically what happened was I tried to upgrade LacieOS while I was resizing my RAID partition. The drive never came back after restarting. I tried the LaCie Recovery tool and it was also unsuccessful. I suspect that the RAID partition had prior issues (a drive had failed in the past, and it was unable to successfully rebuild).
So I followed this post for setting up fresh disks. I read through all of the pages in the post and was able to follow the process to reinstall LaCie OS on each disk. I have 5x 2TB disks. For the record I had to do the
Next I followed the LaCie Web UI setup to create a new RAID5 array. The issue is that there is something wrong with the available capacity.
Screenshots from the LaCie web UI here
And here is the mdadm output:
mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcde][25789]:
mdadm --examine --brief /dev/sd[abcde][25789]:
I can successfully assemble with mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sd[abcde]2
mdadm --detail /dev/md0:
When I reformatted and installed Lacie OS on each drive I booted it up to check if it would turn on and show the Lacie web UI, and it did for each drive.
How can I create the appropriately sized RAID 5 array with these drives? I want the capacity to be 8TB (as it should be with 5x 2TB drives in RAID5).
Thank you so much for your help!
First of all thank you very much to the contributors on this forum - I've learned a lot!
Basically what happened was I tried to upgrade LacieOS while I was resizing my RAID partition. The drive never came back after restarting. I tried the LaCie Recovery tool and it was also unsuccessful. I suspect that the RAID partition had prior issues (a drive had failed in the past, and it was unable to successfully rebuild).
So I followed this post for setting up fresh disks. I read through all of the pages in the post and was able to follow the process to reinstall LaCie OS on each disk. I have 5x 2TB disks. For the record I had to do the
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LaCieFirstBootLaCie
Next I followed the LaCie Web UI setup to create a new RAID5 array. The issue is that there is something wrong with the available capacity.
Screenshots from the LaCie web UI here
And here is the mdadm output:
mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcde][25789]:
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root@fvdw-sta-kirkwood:/ # ./mdadm --examine /dev/sd[abcde][25789]
/dev/sda2:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.0
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : 67472b41:cf171a49:3dfaddd5:27211942
Name : LaCie-5big:4
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:37 2015
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 5
Avail Dev Size : 3902783600 (1860.99 GiB 1998.23 GB)
Array Size : 1046528 (1022.17 MiB 1071.64 MB)
Used Dev Size : 523264 (255.54 MiB 267.91 MB)
Super Offset : 3902783608 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 76d6c0c7:91e3a5db:76759c8e:799b6ed8
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 22:06:00 2015
Checksum : d2a5e4f6 - correct
Events : 159
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Device Role : Active device 0
Array State : AAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
/dev/sda5:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : b12626e2:6e569410:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:29 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Array Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 3
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:56 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 52801bd - correct
Events : 153
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 8 5 0 active sync /dev/sdc5
0 0 8 5 0 active sync /dev/sdc5
1 1 8 69 1 active sync /dev/sdd5
2 2 8 53 2 active sync /dev/sde5
3 3 8 37 3 active sync /dev/sda5
4 4 8 21 4 active sync /dev/sdb5
/dev/sda7:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : ad77aa50:3f797402:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:23 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Array Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:05:11 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : d298a52a - correct
Events : 151
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 8 7 0 active sync /dev/sdc7
0 0 8 7 0 active sync /dev/sdc7
1 1 8 71 1 active sync /dev/sdd7
2 2 8 55 2 active sync /dev/sde7
3 3 8 39 3 active sync /dev/sda7
4 4 8 23 4 active sync /dev/sdb7
/dev/sda8:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : 3fb62ff9:a86b5210:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:27 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 905152 (884.09 MiB 926.88 MB)
Array Size : 905152 (884.09 MiB 926.88 MB)
Raid Devices : 1
Total Devices : 1
Preferred Minor : 1
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:29 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : cdd696ee - correct
Events : 59
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 8 8 0 active sync /dev/sdc8
0 0 8 8 0 active sync /dev/sdc8
/dev/sda9:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : d7d0f83d:c2335c87:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:28 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 905152 (884.09 MiB 926.88 MB)
Array Size : 905152 (884.09 MiB 926.88 MB)
Raid Devices : 1
Total Devices : 1
Preferred Minor : 2
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 22:06:11 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 7fb987f4 - correct
Events : 2083
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 0 8 9 0 active sync /dev/sdc9
0 0 8 9 0 active sync /dev/sdc9
/dev/sdb2:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.0
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : 67472b41:cf171a49:3dfaddd5:27211942
Name : LaCie-5big:4
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:37 2015
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 5
Avail Dev Size : 524264 (256.03 MiB 268.42 MB)
Array Size : 1046528 (1022.17 MiB 1071.64 MB)
Used Dev Size : 523264 (255.54 MiB 267.91 MB)
Super Offset : 524272 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : ce435fb4:7255da1e:cd17c165:ea52b1e4
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 22:06:00 2015
Checksum : 14b09ce6 - correct
Events : 159
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Device Role : Active device 1
Array State : AAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
/dev/sdb5:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : b12626e2:6e569410:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:29 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Array Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 3
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:56 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 52801d5 - correct
Events : 153
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 4 8 21 4 active sync /dev/sdb5
0 0 8 5 0 active sync /dev/sdc5
1 1 8 69 1 active sync /dev/sdd5
2 2 8 53 2 active sync /dev/sde5
3 3 8 37 3 active sync /dev/sda5
4 4 8 21 4 active sync /dev/sdb5
/dev/sdb7:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : ad77aa50:3f797402:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:23 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Array Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:05:11 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : d298a542 - correct
Events : 151
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 4 8 23 4 active sync /dev/sdb7
0 0 8 7 0 active sync /dev/sdc7
1 1 8 71 1 active sync /dev/sdd7
2 2 8 55 2 active sync /dev/sde7
3 3 8 39 3 active sync /dev/sda7
4 4 8 23 4 active sync /dev/sdb7
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb8: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb9: No such device or address
/dev/sdc2:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.0
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : 67472b41:cf171a49:3dfaddd5:27211942
Name : LaCie-5big:4
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:37 2015
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 5
Avail Dev Size : 524264 (256.03 MiB 268.42 MB)
Array Size : 1046528 (1022.17 MiB 1071.64 MB)
Used Dev Size : 523264 (255.54 MiB 267.91 MB)
Super Offset : 524272 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 7f58cd1f:db2f0f66:88c72839:b76b8df6
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 22:06:00 2015
Checksum : ac975488 - correct
Events : 159
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Device Role : Active device 2
Array State : AAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
/dev/sdc5:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : b12626e2:6e569410:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:29 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Array Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 3
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:56 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 52801e3 - correct
Events : 153
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 3 8 37 3 active sync /dev/sda5
0 0 8 5 0 active sync /dev/sdc5
1 1 8 69 1 active sync /dev/sdd5
2 2 8 53 2 active sync /dev/sde5
3 3 8 37 3 active sync /dev/sda5
4 4 8 21 4 active sync /dev/sdb5
/dev/sdc7:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : ad77aa50:3f797402:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:23 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Array Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:05:11 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : d298a550 - correct
Events : 151
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 3 8 39 3 active sync /dev/sda7
0 0 8 7 0 active sync /dev/sdc7
1 1 8 71 1 active sync /dev/sdd7
2 2 8 55 2 active sync /dev/sde7
3 3 8 39 3 active sync /dev/sda7
4 4 8 23 4 active sync /dev/sdb7
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdc8: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdc9: No such device or address
/dev/sdd2:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.0
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : 67472b41:cf171a49:3dfaddd5:27211942
Name : LaCie-5big:4
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:37 2015
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 5
Avail Dev Size : 524264 (256.03 MiB 268.42 MB)
Array Size : 1046528 (1022.17 MiB 1071.64 MB)
Used Dev Size : 523264 (255.54 MiB 267.91 MB)
Super Offset : 524272 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : 6b835974:ff0ab8e6:2879e608:7f0b0841
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 22:06:00 2015
Checksum : 9c04ac01 - correct
Events : 159
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Device Role : Active device 3
Array State : AAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
/dev/sdd5:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : b12626e2:6e569410:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:29 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Array Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 3
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:56 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 52801f1 - correct
Events : 153
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 2 8 53 2 active sync /dev/sde5
0 0 8 5 0 active sync /dev/sdc5
1 1 8 69 1 active sync /dev/sdd5
2 2 8 53 2 active sync /dev/sde5
3 3 8 37 3 active sync /dev/sda5
4 4 8 21 4 active sync /dev/sdb5
/dev/sdd7:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : ad77aa50:3f797402:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:23 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Array Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:05:11 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : d298a55e - correct
Events : 151
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 2 8 55 2 active sync /dev/sde7
0 0 8 7 0 active sync /dev/sdc7
1 1 8 71 1 active sync /dev/sdd7
2 2 8 55 2 active sync /dev/sde7
3 3 8 39 3 active sync /dev/sda7
4 4 8 23 4 active sync /dev/sdb7
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdd8: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdd9: No such device or address
/dev/sde2:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 1.0
Feature Map : 0x0
Array UUID : 67472b41:cf171a49:3dfaddd5:27211942
Name : LaCie-5big:4
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:37 2015
Raid Level : raid5
Raid Devices : 5
Avail Dev Size : 524264 (256.03 MiB 268.42 MB)
Array Size : 1046528 (1022.17 MiB 1071.64 MB)
Used Dev Size : 523264 (255.54 MiB 267.91 MB)
Super Offset : 524272 sectors
State : clean
Device UUID : b0a6672e:4ec0e109:25eca059:9d73f91e
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 22:06:00 2015
Checksum : a7e85fb0 - correct
Events : 159
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Device Role : Active device 4
Array State : AAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
/dev/sde5:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : b12626e2:6e569410:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:29 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Array Size : 262080 (255.98 MiB 268.37 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 3
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:56 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : 52801ff - correct
Events : 153
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 1 8 69 1 active sync /dev/sdd5
0 0 8 5 0 active sync /dev/sdc5
1 1 8 69 1 active sync /dev/sdd5
2 2 8 53 2 active sync /dev/sde5
3 3 8 37 3 active sync /dev/sda5
4 4 8 21 4 active sync /dev/sdb5
/dev/sde7:
Magic : a92b4efc
Version : 0.90.00
UUID : ad77aa50:3f797402:3d186b3c:53958f34
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 06:25:23 2015
Raid Level : raid1
Used Dev Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Array Size : 16320 (15.94 MiB 16.71 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 21:05:11 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Checksum : d298a56c - correct
Events : 151
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
this 1 8 71 1 active sync /dev/sdd7
0 0 8 7 0 active sync /dev/sdc7
1 1 8 71 1 active sync /dev/sdd7
2 2 8 55 2 active sync /dev/sde7
3 3 8 39 3 active sync /dev/sda7
4 4 8 23 4 active sync /dev/sdb7
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sde8: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sde9: No such device or address
mdadm --examine --brief /dev/sd[abcde][25789]:
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root@fvdw-sta-kirkwood:/ # ./mdadm --examine --brief /dev/sd[abcde][25789]
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb8: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdb9: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdc8: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdc9: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdd8: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sdd9: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sde8: No such device or address
mdadm: cannot open /dev/sde9: No such device or address
ARRAY /dev/md2 UUID=d7d0f83d:c2335c87:3d186b3c:53958f34
ARRAY /dev/md1 UUID=3fb62ff9:a86b5210:3d186b3c:53958f34
ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=ad77aa50:3f797402:3d186b3c:53958f34
ARRAY /dev/md3 UUID=b12626e2:6e569410:3d186b3c:53958f34
ARRAY /dev/md/4 metadata=1.0 UUID=67472b41:cf171a49:3dfaddd5:27211942 name=LaCie-5big:4
I can successfully assemble with mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sd[abcde]2
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root@fvdw-sta-kirkwood:/ # ./mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sd[abcde]2
mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 5 drives.
mdadm --detail /dev/md0:
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/dev/md0:
Version : 1.0
Creation Time : Wed Sep 2 21:04:37 2015
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 1046528 (1022.17 MiB 1071.64 MB)
Used Dev Size : 261632 (255.54 MiB 267.91 MB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Wed Sep 2 22:06:00 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Name : LaCie-5big:4
UUID : 67472b41:cf171a49:3dfaddd5:27211942
Events : 159
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 34 0 active sync /dev/sda2
1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2
2 8 2 2 active sync /dev/sdc2
3 8 66 3 active sync /dev/sdd2
4 8 50 4 active sync /dev/sde2
When I reformatted and installed Lacie OS on each drive I booted it up to check if it would turn on and show the Lacie web UI, and it did for each drive.
How can I create the appropriately sized RAID 5 array with these drives? I want the capacity to be 8TB (as it should be with 5x 2TB drives in RAID5).
Thank you so much for your help!