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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:59:24 -0600
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
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Subject: Re: 7Tb XFS partition lost on reboot
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To: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@duke.edu>
Cc: Amandine AUPETIT <amandine@jamendo.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com

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