> > Roy> I still don't understand why people use partitions for RAID > > when > > Roy> the whole drive is used anyway. Partitions were invented to > > Roy> partition things up and are of no use if you want to spend the > > Roy> whole drive's space for RAID use (or otherwise). > > > > Because if I take a 2tb disk a I put a partition on there which is a > > bit smaller than the full disk, if I then add a new 2tb (or any > > other > > size) disk which says it's 2tb, but it's really a bit smaller, then > > I'm not screwed. I've had it happen. > > > Recently? AFAIK, all modern drives (everything over 320G-ish IIRC) use > standardised sizes (i.e. any 2TB disk will present exactly the same > number of sectors). I recall reading that all the manufacturers agreed > to do this to prevent just this sort of issue, though I can't find a > reference to it now. Indeed - you have to go back to smaller drives than those in current production to find varying sizes for equally labelled drive sizes. Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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
