Bill Davidsen wrote: > Molle Bestefich wrote: > >it wrote: > > > Ouch. > > > > > > How does hardware raid deal with this? Does it? > > > > Hardware RAID controllers deal with this by rounding the size of > > participant devices down to nearest GB, on the assumption that no > > drive manufacturers would have the guts to actually sell eg. a 250 GB > > drive with less than exactly 250.000.000.000 bytes of space on it. > > > > (It would be nice if the various flavors of Linux fdisk had an option > > to do this. It would be very nice if anaconda had an option to do > > this.) > > I guess if you care you specify the size of the partition instead of > "use it all." I use fdisk usually, cfdisk when installing, both let me > set size, fdisk let's me set starting track and even play with the > partition table's idea of geometry. What kind of an option did you have > in mind? I don't know. Examples good enough? a.) "Do not use space beyond highest GB" b.) "Do not use last cylinder" Help texts could be: a.) "Helps ensure that you can replace fx. a 300GB drive from one manufacturer with a 300GB from another." b.) "Leave an area that Windows might use for disk metadata alone." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
