From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.168.28]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id lBB16qoT003988 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:53 -0800 Received: from mail.gmx.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with SMTP id B55D4B26DFD for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:07:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by cuda.sgi.com with SMTP id sjBUCivXJi2OK1Ne for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:07:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Chris" References: <002a01c83b74$52060330$f6120990$@de> <475DC056.3000502@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Unexpected XFS SB number 0x00000000 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:06:43 +0100 Message-ID: <000301c83b92$191f6110$4b5e2330$@de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: de Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: 'Eric Sandeen' Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com > > Did your new partition table start in exactly the same place? > > > > I assumed it would be in the same place... > I guess there is no way to find out what the old one looked like? > > > Can you find the string "XFSB" anywhere near where your old partition > > started? > > > > I can try to do so...how? :) > When I look into the partition with cfdisk, I can see what cylinders/heads/sectors it uses. But I'm > sure there are other tools? > > Interestingly, after a reboot cfdisk shows me a 801575.31 MB partition and 2199023.26 MB free space, > although I wrote a single partition of 3000598.57 MB into the table before rebooting. I just tested some more and using parted found out the following: (parted) print Warning: /dev/sdb contains GPT signatures, indicating that is has a GPT table. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Is this a GPT partition table? Yes/No? y Disk /dev/sdb: 3001GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 22250GB 22250GB xfs So it seems that parted can still "see" the old table. But it doesn't have support for resizing xfs partitions...