Molle Bestefich wrote:

it wrote:
Ouch.

How does hardware raid deal with this? Does it?

Hardware RAID controllers deal with this by rounding the size of
participant devices down to nearest GB, on the assumption that no
drive manufacturers would have the guts to actually sell eg. a 250 GB
drive with less than exactly 250.000.000.000 bytes of space on it.

(It would be nice if the various flavors of Linux fdisk had an option
to do this. It would be very nice if anaconda had an option to do
this.)

I guess if you care you specify the size of the partition instead of "use it all." I use fdisk usually, cfdisk when installing, both let me set size, fdisk let's me set starting track and even play with the partition table's idea of geometry. What kind of an option did you have in mind?

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bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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