From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7FC27F37 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:59:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA1C304039 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from benjamin.baylink.com (rrcs-24-129-180-187.se.biz.rr.com [24.129.180.187]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 35is1rLZ3RG34klw for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by benjamin.baylink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442241F0077C for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:59:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from benjamin.baylink.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (benjamin.baylink.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id v08irs4HiKlm for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:59:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from benjamin.baylink.com (benjamin.baylink.com [192.168.253.10]) by benjamin.baylink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BBD1F00643 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:59:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:59:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Jay Ashworth Message-ID: <11399340.1426.1373932777053.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com> In-Reply-To: <20130715231145.GA5738@citd.de> Subject: Re: XFS errors on 3TB HDD that is identified of size 2TB only MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthias Schniedermeyer" > > 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 St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs