On Jan 24, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Roger Willcocks wrote: > > 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. I do understand that is definitely not an XFS issue, but some strange issue with ubuntu or their kernel patches... I got my data back by dumping the entire hdd (it was partitionless nevertheless) to a bigger 2TB hdd. XFS mounts without any problems and I can restore my data. Thanks all for your help! _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
