> > >> Ramadan Kareem Yousuf. >
> What I would do is shrink partition 5 by 100M then create a new ef02 > partition in the freed space. This should be completely safe since it is > just a swap partition and contains no permanent data. > > Do this on both drives after stopping swap (swapoff) then /dev/md1. > > There is no need for RAID on the ef02 partition. > > Thanks for the wishing the Ramadan Kareem :) Thanks for your tip. however what i am looking is more easy way. as Pascal is saying i already have free space in my new drive and there is no need for shrinking a partition. which is i think dangerous at this point because only 1 drive is left. if i loose the data i have to go back to my archive and restore all the data from my old backup drive which going to be a headache. so what i am trying to find out if creating a new partition is sufficient that i will choose that route. Thanks, Yousuf
