/dev/sdf is a 3TB hard drive. It has 2930266584 blocks, as reported in `badblocks -wsv /dev/sdf`: Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode >From block 0 to 2930266583 However mkfs.xfs reports a larger block count: `sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdf`: meta-data=/dev/sdf isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=183141662 blks = sectsz=4096 attr=2, projid32bit=1 = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=0, rmapbt=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=732566646, imaxpct=5 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 ftype=1 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=357698, version=2 = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 It later leads to IO error: `dmesg`: [1807875.741674] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 2930266664 [1807875.741732] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 2930266664 [1807875.742306] XFS (sdf): metadata I/O error: block 0xaea85228 ("xlog_iodone") error 5 numblks 64 [1807875.742369] XFS (sdf): xfs_do_force_shutdown(0x2) called from line 1200 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log.c. Return address = 0xffffffffa024090c [1807875.742381] XFS (sdf): Log I/O Error Detected. Shutting down filesystem [1807875.742416] XFS (sdf): xfs_log_force: error -5 returned. [1807875.742426] XFS (sdf): Please umount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s) [1807881.868117] XFS (sdf): xfs_log_force: error -5 returned. [1807910.701836] XFS (sdf): xfs_log_force: error -5 returned. [1807910.701841] XFS (sdf): Unmounting Filesystem [1807910.701854] XFS (sdf): xfs_log_force: error -5 returned. [1807910.701866] XFS (sdf): xfs_log_force: error -5 returned. The hard drive information: Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166 Serial Number: W1F03GXY -- Regards, Wu, Xingbo (吴兴博) <wuxb45@xxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html