From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754337Ab0JYV0S (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:26:18 -0400 Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:39307 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751053Ab0JYV0R (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:26:17 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApIBAAOTxUxLd/sX/2dsb2JhbAAHgxjMFZIpgSKDMnQEj1Q X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.58,237,1286164800"; d="scan'208";a="80664937" Message-ID: <4CC5F5F5.3060503@teksavvy.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:26:13 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?TWF0aGlhcyBCdXLDqW4=?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sata_mv and Highpoint RocketRAID 230x, corruption? References: <4CC24186.1040001@teksavvy.com> <4CC2FD0A.9090409@teksavvy.com> <4CC303FD.1000802@teksavvy.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10-10-24 08:52 AM, Mathias Burén wrote: > > My question is, is it safe for me to stop md0, delete all 4 partitions > that make up md0, recreate them at the same starting sector, but > ending 2GB from the last sector? Is this safe, will I lose any data? > Just in case I've backuped the MBR (first 512 bytes) of each HDD that > has the partition. .. Dunno. I'm no RAID expert. :)