Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265882AbUA1JjM (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:39:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265881AbUA1JjI (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:39:08 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:45833 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265882AbUA1JjF (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:39:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:38:51 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: venom@sns.it Cc: Dave Kleikamp , Florian Huber , JFS Discussion , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] md raid + jfs + jfs_fsck Message-ID: <20040128093851.A26131@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , venom@sns.it, Dave Kleikamp , Florian Huber , JFS Discussion , linux-kernel References: <20040127205324.A19913@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from venom@sns.it on Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:24:14AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 817 Lines: 16 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:24:14AM +0100, venom@sns.it wrote: > In most situation to create a new FS on a RAID1 MD is not an option. > It happens that you have to mirror a partition, maybe alarge one, and it > already had a filesystem on top of it. Then what should you do? > backup, mirror and then restore? Sometimes it is not possible this too. > Then you accept to deal with the possible problems... Then you need to shrink the filesystem. As long as the space isn't used yet it's rather trivial for most ondisk formats, but you absolutely need to do it to be safe. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/