From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Whole drives or Only partitions for mdadm software RAIDs? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:14:12 +0100 Message-ID: <48693E94.4080309@dgreaves.com> References: <8CAA8FD62E1D4D0-594-672@webmail-nb10.sysops.aol.com> <8CAA902C7CC8B09-594-8CF@webmail-nb10.sysops.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <8CAA902C7CC8B09-594-8CF@webmail-nb10.sysops.aol.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: thomas62186218@aol.com Cc: jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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