On Jan 24, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 1/24/12 9:46 AM, Christian Kildau wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 24, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Roger Willcocks wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 11:13 +0100, Christian Kildau wrote:
>>>> Top posting... sorry.
>>>>
>>>> I have now found dozens of other users with a similar issue! e.g.
>>>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/cannot-mount-hard-disk-block-count-exceeds-size-of-device-bad-partition-table-880149/
>>>>
>>>> To make it short all of these users were running ext4 and a fs resize to
>>>> the new geometry fixed their problems! Sadly XFS doesn't support shrinking
>>>> the fs(?).
>>>>
>>>
>>> It seems fairly clear that your drive or the bios is lying about its
>>> capacity. The filesystem occupies the entire disk, but the disk has
>>> become 'smaller'. A quick web search suggests a 'hidden protected area'
>>> - the two block counts in this link line up with the before and after
>>> sizes you're seeing:
>>>
>>> http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=13440.0;wap2
>>>
>>> It would be instructive to see what 'hdparm -N /dev/sdd' says on your
>>> system. And a dmesg log would be handy too.
>>>
>>> Note that this is /not/ a problem with xfs. The right fix is to tell the
>>> drive to report its actual capacity, not to shrink the filesystem.
>>
>> I do understand that is definitely not an XFS issue, but some strange issue
>> with ubuntu or their kernel patches...
>>
>> I got my data back by dumping the entire hdd (it was partitionless
>> nevertheless) to a bigger 2TB hdd.
>> XFS mounts without any problems and I can restore my data.
>>
>> Thanks all for your help!
>
> It's likely still missing the end of the filesystem, though.
>
> 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
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