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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: new drive is 4 sectors shorter, can it be used for swraid5 array?
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 15:45:59 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220319154559.09f649e4@nvm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220318173007.3ad9348c@nvm>

On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:30:07 +0500
Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net> 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@merlins.org> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-19 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-18  3:08 new drive is 4 sectors shorter, can it be used for swraid5 array? Marc MERLIN
2022-03-18  7:54 ` Wols Lists
2022-03-18 12:30 ` Roman Mamedov
2022-03-19  4:10   ` Marc MERLIN
2022-03-19 10:14     ` Wols Lists
2022-03-19 22:02       ` Marc MERLIN
2022-03-21 19:35       ` Nix
2022-03-19 10:45   ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2022-03-26 18:01 ` Tom Mitchell
2022-03-26 18:29   ` Wols Lists
2022-03-27  8:40 ` d tbsky
2022-03-28  2:05   ` Marc MERLIN
2022-03-29  0:13     ` Chris Murphy
2022-03-29  1:55       ` d tbsky
2022-03-30  2:33         ` Andy Smith
2022-04-02 12:48           ` d tbsky

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