On Dec 29, 2012, at 4:44 AM, Adam Goryachev <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have 3 RAID devices, 2 RAID1 which are then combined into a linear RAID. I've now replaced both drives of one of the RAID1 (from 2 x 1TB TO 2 x 3TB). > > I now want to grow the raid1 from 1TB to 3TB and then grow the linear to include the extra space. However, my concern is that if this is the first array in the linear I will corrupt the filesystem because there will be a big blank space in the middle. What file system? I'm not aware of any off hand that tolerate being grown from anything but the end. Chris Murphy-- 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