growing a graid3 array and growfs not growing ....

[Vikash Badal]

Can someone please advise why growfs would return:
growfs: we are not growing (8388607->4194303) ?


I have a FreeBSD 7.2 server in a VM.
I initially had 5 x 4G disks

Created a raid
graid3 label datavol da2 da3 da4 da5 da6

I upgraded them to 5 x 8g disks

swopped out the virtual disks one at a time

graid3 remove -n 0 datavol
graid3 insert -n 0 datavol da2
[wait]
......
graid3 remove -n 4 datavol
graid3 insert -n 4 datavol da6
[wait]

graid3 stop datavol
growfs /dev/raid3/datavol

error message: growfs: we are not growing (8388607->4194303) ?

vix-sw-raid# graid3 list
Geom name: datavol
State: COMPLETE
Components: 5
Flags: NONE
GenID: 0
SyncID: 1
ID: 2704170828
Zone64kFailed: 0
Zone64kRequested: 0
Zone16kFailed: 0
Zone16kRequested: 0
Zone4kFailed: 0
Zone4kRequested: 524
Providers:
1. Name: raid3/datavol
   Mediasize: 34359736320 (32G)
   Sectorsize: 2048
   Mode: r0w0e0
Consumers:
1. Name: da2
   Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Flags: NONE
   GenID: 0
   SyncID: 1
   Number: 0
   Type: DATA
2. Name: da3
   Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Flags: NONE
   GenID: 0
   SyncID: 1
   Number: 1
   Type: DATA
3. Name: da4
   Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Flags: NONE
   GenID: 0
   SyncID: 1
   Number: 2
   Type: DATA
4. Name: da5
   Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Flags: NONE
   GenID: 0
   SyncID: 1
   Number: 3
   Type: DATA
5. Name: da6
   Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Flags: NONE
   GenID: 0
   SyncID: 1
   Number: 4
   Type: PARITY


fdisk /dev/raid3/datavol
******* Working on device /dev/raid3/datavol *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1044 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1044 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
fdisk: /boot/mbr: length must be a multiple of sector size


what am I missing ?









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