Re: 7Tb XFS partition lost on reboot

[Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 at 2:58pm, Amandine AUPETIT wrote

> So I created the partition with parted, because fdisk can't do more that 2tb 
> partitions.
> It's ok, I can do what I want but...
>
> on reboot, there is a Superblock problem, something like that. When I check 
> with xfs_check :
First guess -- did you use a gpt disklabel on that device?  Standard 
(msdos) disklabels don't work on devices >2TB.  The usual symptom of a big 
device with an msdos disklabel is that the partition table goes away on 
reboot.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF