> As to the question about how to replace a failed component with a > slightly smaller one, the answeris you don't. If you use 3TB disks as your > raid components, you'd better have 3TB disks as replacements. Yes, but for what precise value of ``3TB''? The ones I presently have are 5860533168 sectors. What if the replacement I get in three years time have only 5860533160 sectors?
The normal way to handle this is to allocate slightly less than the full capacity to the partition used as a RAID component.
