On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:48:49AM +0100, PFC wrote: > I suggest, when using software raid, to create partitions that are, > say, 100 megabytes or even a gigabyte smaller than the size of the > drive. > You lose a bit of space, but if you ever need to change one, you won't > feel stupid with a brand new drive that you can't use because it's a few > sectors too short.
After my previous experience what I tend to do now is set aside about 2GB on each disk to use as components of a RAID-0 that I use for scratch space (/tmp or whatever, anything that I don't care about losing) while the machine is running. That way if I end up by bad luck getting a slightly smaller replacement drive then I can just do away with or shrink its RAID-0 component while keeping the other partitions the same, yet the space is not *totally* wasted. -- http://strugglers.net/wiki/Xen_hosting -- A Xen VPS hosting hobby Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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