Re: Odd --examine output

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>]

> Roy> Indeed - you have to go back to smaller drives than those in
> Roy> current production to find varying sizes for equally labelled
> Roy> drive sizes.
> 
> Who says it might never happen again, that drive makers go back to
> varying block counts for disks? Or SSDs? Better safe than sorry, and
> a gig of wasted space is cheap insurance. Plus, it gives you a place
> to put boot blocks for GRUB, etc.

Well, do as you please. When disk vendors standardise, they tend to keep those standards. As I said, the new drive was *smaller* than the older one, so even if I had used partitions, problems would arise. If you're paranoid, though, cut the drive size by 1-5%. Still, all the [124]TB drives I've seen so far have had the same amount of sectors, from Hitachi, Seagate and WD.

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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