-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/12/2013 1:43 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Phillip Susi wrote: > >> You move the superblock, then shrink the partition... > > As far as I know, mdadm has no code to shrink partitions? Of course not, you would use fdisk or parted or whatever else to do that. >> But it looks like mdadm doesn't move the superblock even though >> it no longer is using the full partition. > > I think that is perfectly reasonable. Otherwise the superblock > wouldn't be found next time if the partition wasn't resized. Yes, but the way it is now the superblock won't be found if the partition *is* resized. What is the use of reducing the amount of the partition mdadm is using if you can't then shrink the partition itself? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRGpRxAAoJEJrBOlT6nu750k8IAMwCbeO6rhWP+6pg0nPmgeyI HM5E1X9bJTqV9MfmvSKYjL8QBp6flYqd0bm++lbeOxFiujxKQ5QVSHIF8no6psVe wLLeGy3ltFJ41QnuQAIf2YwR0jhUAd2Wxoeqwq7pnGnSVb8er3Y2ACuj7SNN7SwL pe8DbrUQGpDydnLSH/Rzj/ioQ8BtWt6Uq/xZ8+3j5t3pqAJGmdnQroRJJ6W+0oKN IwK7IK0SVP8fExSjDM2Lo3YfFXfgpan81GADNwYo5ZwEtPTfxvcuXrGVLbjXyN4o Ae6DAMpNihSDKzTXvpPqnzimqpMDtue01zQQdDgkYfcheoQ1DsHnfO8aCnS/mIg= =i9j8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
