Re: disappearing xfs partition

["Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jeffpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:14:38AM -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
...
> # dpkg -l xfsprogs
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  xfsprogs       2.9.5-1        Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem

As others have already pointed out, the problem you have is not with XFS,
but probably with udev.

You may want to upgrade your xfsprogs. Version 2.9.5 has a buggy mkfs (the
fs it makes uses only about 3/4 of the partition).

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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