I'm still trying to find out if I *must* remove the ext3 journal (tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdaN) before going through the RAID setup. I'm guess it would be trivial to convert back anyway, as I don't see any documentation stating the mkraid (or resize2fs, or mdadm) doesn't clobber the ext3 journals. Then again ext3 simple keeps it's journal in a .journal file or a hidden inode file as opposed the far end block - so the conversion back to ext2 doesn't seem to be neccessary. Whew... thanks for the info. I'm learning! Sounds like some insight from Stephen Tweedie or Theodore Ts'o is needed. -eric wood dean gaudet wrote: > the "easiest" way to do this is probably as follows (from a bootable > rescue CD, i don't think you want to attempt this live): > > - resize2fs the filesystem (via the /dev/hdaN or whatever partition > device) to be 1MB smaller (be careful to use the right > "blocks" here -- resize2fs blocks are the same size as the > filesystem blocks, so most likely 4096 bytes, but could be 1024 > bytes in some cases... tune2fs -l is your friend.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
