On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 11:13 +0100, Christian Kildau wrote: > Top posting... sorry. > > I have now found dozens of other users with a similar issue! e.g. > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/cannot-mount-hard-disk-block-count-exceeds-size-of-device-bad-partition-table-880149/ > > To make it short all of these users were running ext4 and a fs resize to the new geometry fixed their problems! Sadly XFS doesn't support shrinking the fs(?). > It seems fairly clear that your drive or the bios is lying about its capacity. The filesystem occupies the entire disk, but the disk has become 'smaller'. A quick web search suggests a 'hidden protected area' - the two block counts in this link line up with the before and after sizes you're seeing: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=13440.0;wap2 It would be instructive to see what 'hdparm -N /dev/sdd' says on your system. And a dmesg log would be handy too. Note that this is /not/ a problem with xfs. The right fix is to tell the drive to report its actual capacity, not to shrink the filesystem. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
