On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 1/24/12 9:46 AM, Christian Kildau wrote: >> >> 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! > > It's likely still missing the end of the filesystem, though. > > Can you run the hdparm command Roger suggested on your original hard drive, please? Sure, here it is: /dev/sde: max sectors = 2930275055/2930277168, HPA is enabled _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
