On Tue, July 1, 2008 6:14 am, David Greaves wrote: > Also, if you ever replace a drive there is a distinct chance that the > drive will > be a different size (even if it is the same model). > > After being bitten by this I always make partition a few Mb smaller than > the device. If you are concerned by this (and it is a valid concern) then you can still use the whole device, and give the --size option to mdadm --create to tell it to use a little bit less than the whole device. You give a size in kilobytes (I really should change that to accept M or G suffixes I guess). Personally, I prefer to use whole devices. NeilBrown -- 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
