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Re[2]: mkfs on large h/w RAID fails

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Subject: Re[2]: mkfs on large h/w RAID fails
From: Keith Matthews <keith_m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:13:20 +0000 (GMT)
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I'm getting this and a number of other posts to the list twice. Anyone
else seeing that ?




On 28 Jan 2002 15:23:22 -0500 Dave Sill <Dave Sill <ds-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxx=
rnl.gov>> wrote:





> Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > OK, something is lying about the size of your device, it is coming in
> > at 234870292 4K blocks. The data size check failed means it attempted t=
o
> > read the last block of the device and the read got an error.=20
> >=20
> > You could try
> >=20
> > mkfs -t xfs -f -d size=3D234870290b /dev/sdb1

> Using a binary search, I found that the largest size that works is
> 201318712.

> > An strace -v output of the failure would also be useful

> It's 72k, so I'll send it to you off list.

> Also, fdisk says:

> Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 116960 cylinders
> Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1             1    116960 939481168+  83  Linux

> -Dave


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