On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 23:04 +0200, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: > Ah! I was thinking about it as a method to > build a RAID with an already existing disk > or partition, which cannot be modified. > So, let's say I've already a disk with some > data and I want/need to protect it with a > RAID configuration, but I cannot re-create > the RAID from scratch, because this will > damage the content of the disk. Does the filesystem support shrinking? Maybe you can shrink it a tiny bit and put the superblock at the end. Some sb formats do this. Ext2/3 can be shrunk, xfs not. -- 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
