Good day to you all, I'm in need of some advice. In my Dell I currently have two 120Gb SATA Hard drives. On one I have a partition dedicated to Windows XP and another partition on my first disk and my second dedicated to a RAID 1 Slackware 11 Linux installation. Foolishly however I made the whole of the partition on my second disk a RAID partition before my brain kicked into gear and realised that when I ran mkraid it would only use the same amount of space on the second drive as was left on the first. So therefore I'm left with approx 40gb of space on the second drive that I can't use.

So my question is can I sucessfully shrink (without having to format and start again) the partition on the second disk using, say 'qtparted' to match the partition on the first disk?

Hope that all makes sense,
Simon

Yes, split the RAID1 array by marking the drive you want to redo as failed, and hot-remove it:

/sbin/mdadm /dev/mdx --fail /dev/hdxn --remove /dev/hdxn

Redo the partitioning and then re-add it to the array:

/sbin/mdadm /dev/mdx --add /dev/hdxn

Thanks for the advice macemoneta I'll try that when I get home tonight. I just bought a shiny new ATI PowerColor X1950 pro so looking forward to see how that performs as well

Simon

Thanks macemoneta that worked like a charm.

Simon