Re: new drive is 4 sectors shorter, can it be used for swraid5 array?

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On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:30:07 +0500
Roman Mamedov <rm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> However there should not be such size difference in the first place

If we look closely though, there actually doesn't appear to be:

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:08:55 -0700
> Marc MERLIN <marc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > old drive:
> > User Capacity:    6,001,175,126,016 bytes [6.00 TB]
> > 
> > new drive:
> > User Capacity:    6,001,175,126,016 bytes [6.00 TB]

As for...

> >    8      128 5860522584 sdi
> >    8      129 5860521543 sdi1
> >
> >    8      160 5860522580 sdk
> >    8      161 5860521536 sdk1

Which tool returns this output?

What do you get for 

  blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sdi
  blockdev --getsize64 /dev/sdk

If this returns the same size for both, wipe a few first MB the new drive with
zeroes using dd, and try a different partitioning tool.

-- 
With respect,
Roman



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