> I'm hoping to shrink the per-component size of an active RAID1 > array, so that I can transition the array to a smaller, faster > set of drives. I may be missing something here, but why not connect up the new drives, setup the arrays, simply cp -R * everything over to the new filesystems and update fstab and mdadm.conf? I can understand wanting to let the system handle it all for you, but this way you'll get a free defrag to boot :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html