Hmm, well i took your advice and it has seemed to work.
I havent done a thourough check for corruption, but there doesnt seem to be
any major problems.
I had a linear raid partition over 4 drives (1 raid partition on each
drive).
I used ext2resize to resize the partition to below the last disk, then just
took all mention of the last drive from file://etc/radtab, and ran mkraid.
The only possible problem i had was when i resized from 2 drives down to a 1
drive linear raid. It seemed to go ok just like before, but when i tried to
copy the data from the 1 drive linear raid to a normal partition i did get a
few fs errors.
At that stage i was working from a boot floppy and was using the busybox cp
command, it reported a heap of errors saying it couldnt find files and
directories. I ended up installing a minimal system and using the normal cp
command and i didnt get these errors.
I did get some errors somewhere about accessing beyond the end of device in
here somewhere... i cant remember exactly, but i think i got over them... i
hope i got over them, i guess i better do a few random checks for
corruption.
Anyway i think it worked, i thought i was going to have to buy another drive
for a while.
Subject: Re: resizing raid partitions
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 12:23:45PM +0000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> Im using linear raid
Oh (!)
Then disregard my last reply (!!!)
For some reason I thought it was RAID-1. RAID-Linear cannot be
resized by resizing the partitions and mkraid -f'ing the RAID again
(well, not without losing the data).
Sorry for the confusion
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