Re: Partitions with == or \approx same size ?

2007-07-21 Thread Seb
Hello Neil, Thanks for the confirmations! It's all very clear now. Case closed. Best, Seb. On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Neil Brown wrote: | On Saturday July 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi Neil, | | | | Could you tell me if such a mechanism exists in mdadm? | | Or should I accept the

Partitions with == or \approx same size ?

2007-07-20 Thread Seb
Dear all, First I'd like to thank you for the great work you've done with mdadm. It's flexible, powerful and reasonably easy to use. I have a question that seems both important for the redundancy of my RAID6 devices and too sharp for me, my friends and the newsgroup fr.comp.stockage . I think

Re: Partitions with == or \approx same size ?

2007-07-20 Thread Robin Hill
On Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 07:54:54PM +0200, Seb wrote: But the number of blocks cannot be imposed when creating a partition, only the number of cylinders. If you hit u in fdisk then you can create partitions by sector rather than by cylinder. HTH, Robin -- ___ ( ' }

Re: Partitions with == or \approx same size ?

2007-07-20 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday July 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you tell me if such a mechanism exists in mdadm? Or should I accept the loss of the 150 GB? When you give mdadm a collection of drives to turn into a RAID array, use bases the size of the array on the smallest device. You might want to make