On 19/08/2014 09:09, Killian De Volder wrote:
No need to remove the bitmap. But be very careful that the disk is exactly the same size (or bigger). I recently had a disk that was slightly smaller then advertised ! But if it's a raid6 why not just jank a disk ? It's still going to be redundant, but only on 1 disk. Killian De Volder Megasoft bvba killian.de.volder@xxxxxxxxxxx
I think it would not be accepted by MD if the size was smaller than needed. At least with --replace. With the dd thing I don't know: it might trust the metadata and bypass the check.... I'd be careful in that case indeed.
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