From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@duke.edu>
Cc: Amandine AUPETIT <amandine@jamendo.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 7Tb XFS partition lost on reboot
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:59:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4730B98C.5090008@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.0.9999.0711061144540.17301@hogwarts.egr.duke.edu>
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 at 2:58pm, Amandine AUPETIT wrote
>
>> So I created the partition with parted, because fdisk can't do more that 2tb
>> partitions.
>> It's ok, I can do what I want but...
>>
>> on reboot, there is a Superblock problem, something like that. When I check
>> with xfs_check :
>
> First guess -- did you use a gpt disklabel on that device? Standard
> (msdos) disklabels don't work on devices >2TB. The usual symptom of a big
> device with an msdos disklabel is that the partition table goes away on
> reboot.
I second that hunch. :)
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 13:58 7Tb XFS partition lost on reboot Amandine AUPETIT
2007-11-06 16:46 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2007-11-06 18:59 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-11-08 13:13 ` Amandine AUPETIT
2007-11-08 14:41 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-11-08 14:59 ` Amandine AUPETIT
2007-11-08 15:14 ` Eric Sandeen
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