resize2fs issue on Linux Red Hat 7.2

[Yu Ting LIU]

Hi,

I am doing hard disk software Raid 1 on Linux Red Hat 7.2 and encounter complain below:

# e2fsck -f /dev/md5
# resize2fs /dev/md5
resizfs 1.23 (15-Aug-2001)
resizfs: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to resize /dev/md5
The filesystem on /dev/md5 is now 513984 block long

Anybody can explain what is happening to /dev/md5?

Thanks in advance!

Regards!
Yu Ting

[Robert Binkhorst · Accepted solution]

Hi Yu Ting,

I found a reference to your question here:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2002-August/msg00125.html

and here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/01/2/40792

Good luck!

Robert

[Yu Ting LIU]

Thanks!

I know what is happenning to my hard disk now.

Regards!
Yu Ting

[Geoff Hardin]

Your last response indicates that you figured out what was happening. Can you share it with the rest of us?

We are also trying to create a RAID 1 device and are running into the exact same problem. The hardware is brand new, and all the other metadevices were created without a problem. All the other pages I have seen seem to incidicate that this is a hardware problem, but since this is brand new hardware, I find that difficult to believe.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Geoff

[Yu Ting LIU]

Hi,

It's a hardware problem. My hard disk was purchased only 2 months ago.

I just simply made a backup of the data of this partiton /dev/md5. After reformat it (mke2fs -j /dev/md5) then restore the data back.

But if you still have spare space on your hard disk I suggest you can build a new raid1 partition to keep the data if the data is critical to you. Because my data is not so critical and also small size.

Hope it will help you!

Regards!
Yu Ting