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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@duke.edu>
Cc: Amandine AUPETIT <amandine@jamendo.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 7Tb XFS partition lost on reboot
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:59:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4730B98C.5090008@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.0.9999.0711061144540.17301@hogwarts.egr.duke.edu>

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 at 2:58pm, Amandine AUPETIT wrote
> 
>> So I created the partition with parted, because fdisk can't do more that 2tb 
>> partitions.
>> It's ok, I can do what I want but...
>>
>> on reboot, there is a Superblock problem, something like that. When I check 
>> with xfs_check :
> 
> First guess -- did you use a gpt disklabel on that device?  Standard 
> (msdos) disklabels don't work on devices >2TB.  The usual symptom of a big 
> device with an msdos disklabel is that the partition table goes away on 
> reboot.

I second that hunch.  :)

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-06 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-06 13:58 7Tb XFS partition lost on reboot Amandine AUPETIT
2007-11-06 16:46 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2007-11-06 18:59   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-11-08 13:13     ` Amandine AUPETIT
2007-11-08 14:41       ` Eric Sandeen
2007-11-08 14:59         ` Amandine AUPETIT
2007-11-08 15:14           ` Eric Sandeen

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