Re: RAID1 root and swap and initrd

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Andre Majorel wrote:
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>> So just move it to sda1 (or sda2, sda3) from sda5
> 
> Problem is, the disks are entirely used by an extended partition.
> There's nowhere to move sd?5 to.

You're using raid, so you've at least two disk drives.

remove one component off all your raid devices (second disk),
repartition the disk, re-add the components back - this will copy
data over to the second diks.  Next repeat the same procedure with
the first disk.

Or something like that -- probably only single partition (on both
disks) needs to be recreated this way.

> I think it's possible to turn the first logical partition into a
> primary partition by modifying the partition table on the MBR but
> I'm not sure I'm up for that.

It's possible to move sda5 to sda1, but not easy - because at the
start of extended partition there's a (relatively large) space for
the "logical partitions", you can't just "relabel" your partitions,
you have to actually move data.

/mjt