On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 05:58:17PM +0200, Dominik Vallendor wrote: > Hello everyone, > > today we tried to shrink a drbd device online. > Following the documentation over at: > https://docs.linbit.com/docs/users-guide-8.4/#s-resizing we ran > > "drbdadm resize --size=<new-size> <resource>" > > which led to the following error: "drbdadm: unrecognized option '--size'". > > After some research we found an archived thread > (http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2012-June/018551.html) which > mentions that error and confirms it as a bug. > The documentation for drbd 8.0-8.3 uses the old command syntax ("drbdadm -- > --size=<new-size> resize <resource>") which works, the documentation for > drbd 8.4 and 9.0 uses a new command syntax which does not work. > I tried this with drdb-utils 8.9.6 and the current 9.5.0 version. > > These mistakes in the documentation can be found in the man pages for > drbdadm as well. > > Debug information: > drbd: version: 8.4.10 (api:1/proto:86-101) > drbd-utils: > Version: 8.9.6 (api:1) > GIT-hash: c6e62702d5e4fb2cf6b3fa27e67cb0d4b399a30b build by user@somewhere, > 2018-04-04 11:24:10 > > Version: 9.5.0 (api:1) > GIT-hash: ee126652638328b55dc6bff47d07d6161ab768db build by user@somewhere, > 2018-08-23 16:53:06 > > Could you please confirm this bug and fix the documentation/bug?
Yeah, the arg-parsing is a bit weird on how/when it passes args to the underlying programs (i.e., drbdmeta/drbdsetup)... Most likely it will be an update to the UGs, let's see. Thanks, rck _______________________________________________ drbd-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user
