5 Apr
                
                    2012
                
            
            
                5 Apr
                
                '12
                
            
            
            
        
    
                7:38 a.m.
            
        Brett Pemberton wrote:
Now that a 1.5TB drive has failed, I'm replacing it with another 2TB drive, and wondering the best way to use the remainder 500GB
IMO, best practice is to leave it unused until *all* 1.5s are replaced with 2s, at which point you just tell mdadm to grow to use the extra 500 on each disk. (If you have a partition table, you probably will have to fiddle that first.)