On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:14:56 +1000 Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yes, you can binary copy the drive like that, that's what I usually do. > > Of course you need to be sure that the old and new devices are exactly the > same size. Normally they will but it is worth double checking that the > number of sectors (blockdev --getsize) is exactly the same. Isn't it okay for the new drive to be larger? At least if the RAID0 was created from partitions, not whole block devices. And if it was created from devices, there is a way to make the new larger drive to be of exactly the same size as the old one, by setting a HPA on it (see hdparm -N). -- With respect, Roman
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