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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 658055e9e9a9d48702b985cc793ed93d; Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:16:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.0 Subject: Re: Need to move RAID1 with mounted partition Content-Language: en-US To: Linux RAID References: <8c2148d0-fa97-d0ef-10cc-11f79d7da5e5@youngman.org.uk> <20220420110810.x2ydoqhyeuocnrwy@bitfolk.com> From: Leslie Rhorer In-Reply-To: <20220420110810.x2ydoqhyeuocnrwy@bitfolk.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.20048 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org On 4/20/2022 6:08 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 03:40:12AM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: >> The third partition on each drive is assigned as swap, and of >> course it was easy to resize those partitions, leaving an >> additional 512MB between the second and third partitions on each >> drive. All I need to do is move the second partition on each >> drive up by 512MB. > > I'd be tempted to just make these two new 512M spaces into new > partitions for a RAID-1 and move your /boot to that, abandoning the > RAID-1 you have for the /boot that is using the partitions at the > start of the disk. What would you lose? A couple of hundred MB? > Exchanged for a much easier life. > > You could do away with the swap partitions entirely and use swap > files instead. > > You could recycle the first partitions as swap, too. > > Cheers, > Andy Well, the idea is moot, since I have already moved the partitions. (It took less than 10 minutes.) Of course, I could do as you say, but I don't really see the advantages. How would my life be easier? I looked into swap files rather than partitions some time ago. I don't recall all the reasons, but I decided to keep the swap partitions.