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Re: bsdlabel and xfs on alpha

To: "Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: bsdlabel and xfs on alpha
From: Andrej Filipcic <Andrej.Filipcic@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:00:12 +0100 (CET)
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On 16 Jan 2002, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

> >>>>> "Andrej" == Andrej Filipcic <Andrej.Filipcic@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Andrej> I am trying to use xfs on alpha, however there are some
> Andrej> problems with lost disklabel. I have created a disklabel with
> Andrej> one partition for entire disk. Then I formatted the drive and
> Andrej> mount it. However in this case the disklabel is lost. I have
> Andrej> to recreate it and then restore xfs with
> Andrej> xfs_repair. xfs_repair destroys the disklabel, but I can still
> Andrej> mount the partition.  Is there something overlaping between
> Andrej> the label and partition?
> 
> Yep.  Avoid using the first cylinder on the disk for XFS filesystems.
> 
> Unlike ext2, XFS places its superblock right at the beginning of the
> partition.
> 
> My Red Hat/Alpha XFS installer should warn you about this.  Don't know
> if you used that to do the install.
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No, I have installed it by hand. Thanks, it works...

Andrej


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