Hi First, this is not a raid recovery problem !!! I'm recovering a disk failure and for various reasons I've ended up with a partition that's too small to hold the file system that belongs in it. I managed to create a second small partition on a good bit of the failing disk and use linear mode to concatenate the almost big enough partition (sdc2) with the temp partition (sdb2) to make a big enough space to ddrescue the failing data. All is now good with 95% of data on the good disk and the small partition is holding up. However I need to get rid of it ASAP. So I dd'ed the small partition onto a good filesystem on sdc1. Now I want to: mdadm -B /dev/md0 -l linear -n2 /dev/sdc2 /space/sdb2.dd_image but of course mdadm correctly complains that /space/sdb2.dd_image isn't a block device. Does anyone know how I can do this? David -- - 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
