Scott Lamb wrote: > On May 7, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Wojtek.Pilorz wrote: >> I would suggest you to add external HDD (e.g. USB2, or IDE/SATA with >> USB2/PATA+SATA converter) and copy your data. >> If the filesystem is screwed up, resizing can only make its state worse. > > On second thought, there is a way I can do this without buying more > drives or resizing filesystems. I can just degrade my RAID-5 array by > pulling one of the drives and formatting it standalone. I think the > stuff I want will (just barely) fit on a single drive. > > --Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/> > > Isn't a degraded raid5 horribly slow? Russ