From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: Re: only 4 spares and no access to my data Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <62b0912f0607091223y3d0a1ab5xbc5fb01ce2a74f9e@mail.gmail.com> <44B213CD.5010907@idgmail.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Henrik Holst idgmail.se> writes: > I don't understand this. Do you have more than a single partion on sda? > Is sda1 occupying the entire disk? since the superblock is the /last/ > "128Kb" (I'm assuming 128*1024 bytes) the superblocks should be one and > the same. I should have mentioned that I did not use the whole hard drive space for sd[abcd]1. I thought that if I have to replace one of my Samsungs with another drive that has not the very same capacity, I'd better use exactly 250GB partitions and forget the last approx. 49MB of the drives. HTH