On Thu, 15 May 2003, Nate Carlson wrote: > Just had a drive go dead (one of the Maxtor 160gb drives) that isn't > in a hotswap sled.. have to take Gladiator down to swap the drive out. > > Should be back up shortly. Well, looks like we lost a second drive; the controller started throwing many CRC errors on a second one of the Maxtor drives when I started the rebuild. Ugh! Talked to 3ware tech support; they say these Maxtor drives go bad all the time, and gave us a few suggestions.. waiting to see what happens on a rebuild. The way we've got Gladiator set up, there are two arrays (~600gb Western Digital, ~800gb Maxtor), and they are in a LVM VG with one big EXT3 partition across it. The WD drives are first in the VG, then the Maxtor drives. We've got a total of 320gb of data on Gladiator, so if data is stored sequentially, all the data *should* be on the WD drives. Anyone know if it's possible to shrink an ext3 partition when the second half of it's on a dying disk? And then have to reduce the LVM partition, of course.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list