On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 10:18:13 -0400 Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 08:01:05AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > > On 9/5/2014 07:18, Richard Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > >Until I read this thread, I've never heard of building RAIDs on bare > > >metal drives. I'm assuming no partition table, just a disk label? > > When the disk dies, the replacement disk must be exactly the same size. Been there, done that. I allways make partition few GB smaller than the physical size. It's not always possible to get the same type of the replacement disk. My 2c, Bob