On May 7, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Ruslan Sivak wrote: > 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? Probably. That's okay...I'm a patient guy, and I'll go back to full RAID-5 after I'm done backing up / reinstalling / restoring. -- Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>