Hello, On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:26:58 -0600 José Andrés Matamoros Guevara wrote:
> Wow! I did it without partitioning the disk and it’s working. Thanks a lot > for your help. > Been doing that for ages. Of course having a partition that is a good bit smaller than then actual disk size would be a good starting point/best practice as well. > > > Didn’t know you can do it this way. There are something you can learn every > moment… > > > > OK, Yannis: thanks a lot again. It’s sync’ing now and it’s going to take 13 > hours. I was thinking on bringing it up as StandAlone and copy everything > from one disk to another and then resync from the small one to the bigger > one, but it was going to take a few days… Much better this solution. > > > > We can close the case now, if no one has another comment. > What I suspect is that you created the original partition a long time ago, when fdisk and friends were reserving less space for bootloaders and other things. So a default partition these days would be smaller. For example an old system here, created more than 7 years ago: --- Disk /dev/sda: 69.3 GiB, 74355769344 bytes, 145226112 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x000ae7e9 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 63 15631244 15631182 7.5G fd Linux raid autodetect --- Versus one created recently (a year ago): --- Disk /dev/sda: 186.3 GiB, 200049647616 bytes, 390721968 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xca6f7668 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 292968447 292966400 139.7G fd Linux raid autodetect --- Christian > > > Andres. > > > > _____ > > > > From: Yannis Milios [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, 12 September, 2017 9:55 AM > To: José Andrés Matamoros Guevara <[email protected]> > Cc: drbd-user <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Receiving a message "disk size of peer is too small" > > > > >The partition takes all the disk, but in the new one, when I created it, was > >a little smaller. > > > > That's the case then. What about leaving the new disk unpartitioned and using > it as /dev/sdb (instead of /dev/sdb1) ? > > > > Otherwise I guess 2 options remain: > > > > - Buy a bigger disk > > - Shrink the original in order to match the size of the new (dangerous): > > > > https://docs.linbit.com/doc/users-guide-83/s-resizing/ > > > -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer [email protected] Rakuten Communications _______________________________________________ drbd-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user
