From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:23:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m25BNC0D004294 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 03:23:13 -0800 Received: from filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 195C7655182 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 03:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu (filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.126.2]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id lhBubU0wHu92GdqJ for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:23:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:31:43 -0500 From: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" Subject: Re: disappearing xfs partition Message-ID: <20080303203143.GA21086@josefsipek.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Jeff Breidenbach Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:14:38AM -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: ... > # dpkg -l xfsprogs > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-==============-==============-============================================ > ii xfsprogs 2.9.5-1 Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem As others have already pointed out, the problem you have is not with XFS, but probably with udev. You may want to upgrade your xfsprogs. Version 2.9.5 has a buggy mkfs (the fs it makes uses only about 3/4 of the partition). Josef 'Jeff' Sipek. -- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - Edsger Dijkstra