Re: Need to move RAID1 with mounted partition

[Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net>]

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.