From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk Subject: Re: Odd --examine output Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:22:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <27736223.20.1366294928235.JavaMail.root@zimbra> References: <20847.61219.343100.819285@quad.stoffel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20847.61219.343100.819285@quad.stoffel.home> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Stoffel Cc: Robin Hill , Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids > 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. >=20 > 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 kee= p those standards. As I said, the new drive was *smaller* than the olde= r one, so even if I had used partitions, problems would arise. If you'r= e 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 Hitac= hi, Seagate and WD. Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt.= Det er et element=C3=A6rt imperativ for alle pedagoger =C3=A5 unng=C3=A5= eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilf= eller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer p=C3=A5 norsk. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html