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Re: disappearing xfs partition

To: "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jeff Marshall" <marshman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: disappearing xfs partition
From: "Jeff Breidenbach" <jeff@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:56:46 -0800
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Following up and close out the topic, I got this comment from Eric.

>So parted has this bad habit of making partition tables that cannot
>actually be read from the disk, and poking the supposedly values
>directly into the kernel.  Then things work fine until reboot, at which
>time the partition table cannot be properly read.   Usually this turns
>into a truncated size due to an overflow....

I'd been using cfdisk and not parted, but that's apparently what
happened. Rewriting the partition table with cfdisk fixed everything
and allowed the partition to mount. At least for this boot.

Thanks all.


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