On 1/6/15 1:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > 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 I don't think they get it wrong, they are just reporting what the drive says over that interface. I ... don't actually know where smartctl/hdparm get the values, vs. the values exported to blockdev. Is the drive reporting different values over different query interfaces? Hrm. mkfs.xfs uses the same interface as used by blockdev. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
