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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
To: David T-G <davidtg+robot@justpickone.org>
Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: overlays on dd images of 4T drives
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 13:47:23 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211114134723.46092368@nvm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211114022924.GA21337@opal1.opalstack.com>

On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 02:29:24 +0000
David T-G <davidtg+robot@justpickone.org> wrote:

>   diskfarm:/mnt/10Traid50md/tmp # ls -goh overlay-sd*
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 4.0T Nov 12 02:05 overlay-sda1
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 4.0T Nov 12 02:05 overlay-sdb1
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 4.0T Nov 12 02:05 overlay-sdc1
>   diskfarm:/mnt/10Traid50md/tmp # losetup -a
>   /dev/loop1: [66326]:1059 (/mnt/10Traid50md/tmp/overlay-sdb1)
>   /dev/loop2: [66326]:1060 (/mnt/10Traid50md/tmp/overlay-sdc1)
>   /dev/loop0: [66326]:1058 (/mnt/10Traid50md/tmp/overlay-sda1)
> 
> my overlay files and loopback devices.  But ...
> 
> It seems that blockdev does not like
> 
>   diskfarm:/mnt/10Traid50md/tmp # blockdev --getsize ./overlay-sda1
>   blockdev: ioctl error on BLKGETSIZE: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 
> my files

It must be run on block devices, not files, so try: 

  blockdev --getsize /dev/loop0

-- 
With respect,
Roman

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-14  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-14  2:29 overlays on dd images of 4T drives David T-G
2021-11-14  8:47 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2021-11-15  2:51 ` David T-G
2021-11-15 19:32   ` Phillip Susi
2021-11-16  2:01     ` David T-G
2021-11-16  2:07       ` can't loop the image files and assemble (was "Re: overlays on dd images of 4T drives") David T-G

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