On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > however, some drives lie about these sizes, and then mkfs.xfs can't know. > Try the blockdev command above to see. blockdev and parted seem to get this wrong for a device for which smartctl and hdparm get correct smartctl -a reports: Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical hdparm -I reports: Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes parted reports: Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B # blockdev --getss /dev/sdc 512 # blockdev --getpbsz /dev/sdc 512 And thus xfs_info on this device says sectsz=512 since I formatted with defaults. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
