> Roy> Indeed - you have to go back to smaller drives than those in > Roy> current production to find varying sizes for equally labelled > Roy> drive sizes. > > Who says it might never happen again, that drive makers go back to > varying block counts for disks? Or SSDs? Better safe than sorry, and > a gig of wasted space is cheap insurance. Plus, it gives you a place > to put boot blocks for GRUB, etc. Well, do as you please. When disk vendors standardise, they tend to keep those standards. As I said, the new drive was *smaller* than the older one, so even if I had used partitions, problems would arise. If you're paranoid, though, cut the drive size by 1-5%. Still, all the [124]TB drives I've seen so far have had the same amount of sectors, from Hitachi, Seagate and WD. 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
