Shrink RAID5?

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

The PERC 4's and PERC 5's don't support this operation. However, the
Adaptec based PERC 3's will allow it. I'm not entirely sure about the
commands to run to do this. Honestly my advice would be to back up the
data, delete the old volume, create a new one, and then restore the
data. I really don't know how well the card does the shrink operation.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Scott Wessels
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:55 AM
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Subject: Shrink RAID5?

I'd like to remove one of the 5 drives from a RAID5 array. Will the 
following work? (I've already shrunk the filesystem )
AFA0> container reconfigure /partition_size=0M 0 (0,4,0)

Is this possible at all?

Regards,

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