From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:59:32 -0700 (PDT) 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 m2B9xNPl018547 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:59:25 -0700 Received: from mail.lichtvoll.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 34DB4F60284 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.lichtvoll.de (mondschein.lichtvoll.de [194.150.191.11]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 036j3u51AyA9OyHO for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nb27steigerwald.qs.de (unknown [212.204.70.254]) by mail.lichtvoll.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0FDC5ADD6 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:59:50 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Steigerwald Subject: Re: disappearing xfs partition Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:59:50 +0100 References: (sfid-20080304_090400_023531_C318561D) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803111059.50596.Martin@lichtvoll.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Am Dienstag 04 März 2008 schrieb Jeff Breidenbach: > Following up and close out the topic, I got this comment from Eric. > > >So parted has this bad habit of making partition tables that cannot > >actually be read from the disk, and poking the supposedly values > >directly into the kernel. Then things work fine until reboot, at > > which time the partition table cannot be properly read. Usually > > this turns into a truncated size due to an overflow.... > > I'd been using cfdisk and not parted, but that's apparently what > happened. Rewriting the partition table with cfdisk fixed everything > and allowed the partition to mount. At least for this boot. Hi Jan, Its always a good idea to check whether the kernel reread the partition table after partitioning with cat /proc/partitions If it doesn't have you can tell the kernel to do it manually: blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sde If that tells you something about device is busy or so you'd need to unmount partitions on it or reboot. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7