Hello all, hello Neil! Am 01.11.2012 um 22:03 schrieb Sebastian Hegler: > So, I've got two questions: > * Did mdadm (or the kernel md driver) write to the end area of the disk? > * Is it possible to make mdadm give me back the 128kiB at the end of each device? There's 88kiB left on each disk; this used to be enough when I created the original array in 2010. Let me clarify: there's still 88kiB left _after_ taking away 128kiB for the chunk at the end. Yours, Sebastian -- Dipl.-Inf. Sebastian Hegler Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Technische Universität Dresden Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik Lehrstuhl Hochfrequenztechnik Helmholtzstr. 18 D-01062 Dresden Tel.: +49 (0)351 463 35338 Fax: +49 (0)351 463 37163 Email: sebastian.hegler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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