Raid question

[Stuart Clark]

Hi   I want to move my /home dir into a software raid 1.   Currently 65 gig /dev/hda partitioned:   Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2              54G   19G   33G  38% / /dev/hda1              46M   15M   29M  33% /boot       This is my plan:   1)       Add /dev/hdb 2)       Create a raid1 partition /tmp_home using a single device (/dev/hdb1) 3)       Copy /home onto the new partition 4)       Shrink the / directory on /dev/hda2 5)       Create a raid1 partition at /dev/hda3 6)       Add this partition to the array using the raidhotadd command. 7)       Mounting /home on new raid partition     I’m stuck at the stage 4 - shrinking of the / directory.   Any ideas?   Is parted reliable?   Is their another method you know of?   Regards Stuart Clark