From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: thomas62186218@aol.com
Cc: jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Whole drives or Only partitions for mdadm software RAIDs?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:14:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48693E94.4080309@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CAA902C7CC8B09-594-8CF@webmail-nb10.sysops.aol.com>
Also, if you ever replace a drive there is a distinct chance that the drive will
be a different size (even if it is the same model).
After being bitten by this I always make partition a few Mb smaller than the device.
David
thomas62186218@aol.com wrote:
>
> Thanks Justin. If that's the only risk, I'll go with full devices. This
> will ultimately be a headless system with a separate boot drive and only
> administered by me and used internally, so I'll be careful. :-)
>
> Many thanks!
> -Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-30 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-30 19:19 Whole drives or Only partitions for mdadm software RAIDs? thomas62186218
2008-06-30 19:50 ` Justin Piszcz
2008-06-30 19:58 ` thomas62186218
2008-06-30 20:14 ` David Greaves [this message]
2008-06-30 22:57 ` NeilBrown
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