From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wols Lists Subject: Re: Replacing a RAID1 drive that has not failed. Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:31:01 +0000 Message-ID: <562FED15.5040804@youngman.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Doug Herr , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 27/10/15 16:45, Doug Herr wrote: > 1. Partition new drive (plugged in via external SATA dock) > #fdisk /dev/sdc > (make it an exact match of sda/sdb unless it turns out to be smaller, > in which case I can shrink /boot to make room.) man gdisk. Look at the "u" option in the "expert" menu - it'll probably save you some work :-) Cheers, Wol