From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757474AbXI2CPh (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:15:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753287AbXI2CP0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:15:26 -0400 Received: from zeratul.whoi.edu ([128.128.76.62]:56259 "EHLO mx1.whoi.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752685AbXI2CPZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:15:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:15:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Carr X-X-Sender: benc@puck.litech.org To: Joshua Baker-LePain Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Eric Sandeen , Justin Piszcz , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Truncated Filesystem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <46FD9006.6050807@sandeen.net> <46FD959E.5030009@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >> What kind of partition table is it? MS-DOS partition tables have a 2 TB > >> limit. > Issue number one -- don't use fdisk, as it doesn't support devices that > big. Use parted instead: climate:~ benc$ sudo parted /dev/sdc check 1 Warning: Partition 1 is 2005GB, but the file system is 13TB. Yeah, that is a problem.