Hi Everyone, I have an 8-disk raid5 array (each is 500GB SATA). The first disk sda1 shows bad sectors (from smartd). mdadm reports that the array is fine, but I want to replace or re-add the drive. Should I replace it? It's the oldest drive in the array (the disk is ~3 years old). Also, can I replace it with a 1TB disk and add it as two partitions (assuming that 2 partitions of the correct size can be created)? I have read of RAID schemes that involves partitioning each disk into smaller increments, but this seems inherently unsafe to me unless mdadm understands that two partitions are on the same device and organizes parity accordingly. Thank you for all your time and effort, Cody -- 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
