From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS errors on 3TB HDD that is identified of size 2TB only
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:59:37 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11399340.1426.1373932777053.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130715231145.GA5738@citd.de>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthias Schniedermeyer" <ms@citd.de>
> > Stop! Wait a minute! Stop it, boy!
> >
> > (Sorry; Meat Loaf flashback. :-)
> >
> > You're looking at that partition table with fdisk, *which doesn't
> > understand
> > GPT partition tables*; it's amazing it didn't complain louder.
>
> It does. At least the version i got does:
>
> ...
> WARNING: The size of this disk is 3.0 TB (3000592982016 bytes).
> DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes
> larger than (2199023255040 bytes) for 512-byte sectors. Use parted(1)
> and GUID partition table format (GPT).
> ...
You're reading it wrong. That's the fdisk which you tell me understands
GPT tables *telling you it does not*.
> And that's not even the most recent version:
> fdisk -v
> fdisk (util-linux 2.20.1)
>
> But in the OP-Case the kernel appeared to reported the disc as 2TB,
> which could be seen in the fdisk output.
fdisk is not guaranteed to be using a long enough variable there to be
able to report the drive size correctly.
TTBOMK, *nothing* other than parted presently knows how to create
and modify GPT partition tables.
Except, apparently, for a program with the *singularly* poorly chosen
name of "GPT Fdisk":
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/
I know, that sounds like a *really good* name. I've been doing tech
support for 30 years; trust me, it's about the worst imaginable name. :-}
Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-15 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-14 8:05 XFS errors on 3TB HDD that is identified of size 2TB only Thomas Schneider
2013-07-14 15:51 ` Jay Ashworth
2013-07-15 23:11 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2013-07-15 23:59 ` Jay Ashworth [this message]
2013-07-16 5:10 ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2013-07-17 1:36 ` Jay Ashworth
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