Re: How to fix bad superblock or xfs_repair: error - read only 0 of 512 bytes

[Christian Kildau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 24, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Roger Willcocks wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 09:57 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 1/24/12 9:52 AM, Christian Kildau wrote:
>>> On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> 
> ...
>>>> Can you run the hdparm command Roger suggested on your original hard 
>>>> drive, please?
>>> 
>>> Sure, here it is:
>>> 
>>> /dev/sde:
>>> max sectors   = 2930275055/2930277168, HPA is enabled
>>                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>> ding ding ding, we have a winner.
>> 
>> 2930277168-2930275055 = 2113 which is about how much xfs tried to read past 
>> the end.
>> 
>> Something about the ubuntu upgrade messed with your disk.
>> 
>> I'd press them very hard to investigate & resolve that.  You can probably 
>> use hdparm
>> to remove the HPA and get your space back but this is beyond my expertise &
>> familiarity.  It'd be interesting to know what is _in_ the HPA area first.
>> 
> 
> Kernel commit d8d9129ea28e2177749627c82962feb26e8d11e9 added code to
> notice if a disk partition extends into the hidden area and 'unlocks'
> the hidden area (uses the full disk capacity) if necessary.
> 
> But if there's no partition table (the entire disk is formatted as a
> single filesystem) the heuristic can't work.
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg40244.html suggests that
> Ubuntu no longer always unlocks, but uses the heuristic above. In the
> same message Alan Cox says Ubuntu 'made a bad mistake on that one.'
> 
> -- 
> Roger Willcocks <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 



Good to know! Made me choose another OS for the next servers!

Thanks