[Systems] Bender's root filesystem

[Bernie Innocenti]

So I think I figured out what went wrong with Bender.

For some time, Bender's root filesystem was being mounted directly
from /dev/sda1, not /dev/md127 (the raid1 device which binds sda1 and
sdb1 together).

Normally, raid1 partitions are exactly the same size of the physical
partitions containing them. But not in this case, probably because the
array was created using the 1.0 metadata format. Metadata is probably
sitting at the end of the volume.

So the filesystem now thinks it's bigger than its containing partition:

bender:/# fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep sda1
/dev/sda1               1        1305    10482381   83  Linux
bender:/# mdadm --detail /dev/md127 | grep 'Array Size'
     Array Size : 10482308 (10.00 GiB 10.73 GB)
bender:/# tune2fs -l /dev/md127 | grep 'Block count:'
Block count:              2620595


The block count is in 4k units.

 2620595*4096/1024 = 10482380

Which is the size of sda1, too big for md127.


So I think the solution is this:

 bender:/# resize2fs  /dev/md127  20964614s
 resize2fs 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
 Filesystem at /dev/md127 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
 On-line shrinking from 2620595 to 2620576 not supported.

Of course, it would have to be done from the console in single user
mode, with / mounted read-only. Or from a boot cd.

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