I have two disks in my box, both are MAXTOR 6L080L4 (80GB IDE) and physically the same disks, both have 3 partitions, one for /boot one for swap and one huge one for the rest for the mirrored data. The mirror works as expected, but somewhere something went slightly wrong because one disks geometry is: physical 155114/16/63 logical 155114/16/63 The other disk is: physical 155114/16/63 logical 9732/255/63 Now, this has the annoying sideeffect of making it impossible for me to partition them exactly the same way, so I ended up creating the mirror on disk 1 (which has a slightly smaller partition for mirroring than disk 2) and then adding disk 2 later. This will get me in trouble (I tested it) when disk 1 fails and I need to replace it, because then I have to make that partition slightly larger than the disk 2 partition so it can be added to the mirror. Now for the questions: * Is there a way to change the logical geometry of disk 2, so I can partition correctly (well if there is then this post is OT)? * Is there a way to force the array to keep being the same size, even after the smaller partition has failed? * Why does the BIOS think that it's cool to translate similar disks differently, are BIOS writers crackheads or was I just unlucky? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
