On Jan 24, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Roger Willcocks wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 09:57 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> On 1/24/12 9:52 AM, Christian Kildau wrote: >>> On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >>> > ... >>>> 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 >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> ding ding ding, we have a winner. >> >> 2930277168-2930275055 = 2113 which is about how much xfs tried to read past the end. >> >> Something about the ubuntu upgrade messed with your disk. >> >> I'd press them very hard to investigate & resolve that. You can probably use hdparm >> to remove the HPA and get your space back but this is beyond my expertise & >> familiarity. It'd be interesting to know what is _in_ the HPA area first. >> > > Kernel commit d8d9129ea28e2177749627c82962feb26e8d11e9 added code to > notice if a disk partition extends into the hidden area and 'unlocks' > the hidden area (uses the full disk capacity) if necessary. > > But if there's no partition table (the entire disk is formatted as a > single filesystem) the heuristic can't work. > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg40244.html suggests that > Ubuntu no longer always unlocks, but uses the heuristic above. In the > same message Alan Cox says Ubuntu 'made a bad mistake on that one.' > > -- > Roger Willcocks <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Good to know! Made me choose another OS for the next servers! Thanks _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
