On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 12:07 PM Robert Citek <robert.ci...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In contrast, if we parse the same information for md1, we see that it is > also made up of 5 devices, sdb2-sdf2, but of varying sizes: > > The RAID makes sense. The smallest partition size is 288.2 GB. And 684.1 > / 228.2 = 3 which is what you would expect for a five-drive RAID6 setup. > But the partitioning seems odd, given that the drives are the same size, > except sdc: > > The second partition takes up the remainder of the drive for only drives > sdc and sde. The other partitions are half or less, with no other > partition using up the additional space. Is that partitioning scheme > intended? > > I suspect this is a result of many years of different sysadmins replacing drives as they failed. we probably had the idea of eventually increasing the array's storage size once all the smaller drives were replaced with larger ones. -wes
