From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Shrinking raid array
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:39:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511A7052.9020802@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511A6554.1010100@ubuntu.com>
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On 2/12/2013 10:52 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I'm working on shrinking a raid array and need some clarification
> on where the metadata goes and how large it is. I have used -G
> with -Z and -z to reduce the used size of each disk, but the man
> page says you need some extra space at the end of the disk for the
> metadata ( format 1.0 ), but doesn't specify exactly how much. I
> need to know what the exact size of the reduced partition should
> be.
I just noticed that reducing the used dev size has not moved the
metadata, so it is looking like it just isn't possible to shrink the
md partition with metadata format 1.0?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-12 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 15:52 Shrinking raid array Phillip Susi
2013-02-12 16:39 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2013-02-12 17:53 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-02-12 18:11 ` Phillip Susi
2013-02-12 18:43 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-02-12 19:13 ` Phillip Susi
2013-02-13 5:12 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-02-13 5:17 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
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