Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756457AbXI2CPO (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:15:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752685AbXI2CPB (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:15:01 -0400 Received: from hogwarts.egr.duke.edu ([152.3.195.84]:44079 "EHLO hogwarts.egr.duke.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752222AbXI2CPA (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:15:00 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1493 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:15:00 EDT Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:49:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Joshua Baker-LePain X-X-Sender: jlb@hogwarts.egr.duke.edu To: Benjamin Carr cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Eric Sandeen , Justin Piszcz , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Truncated Filesystem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <46FD9006.6050807@sandeen.net> <46FD959E.5030009@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 31 On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 at 8:49pm, Benjamin Carr wrote >> What kind of partition table is it? MS-DOS partition tables have a 2 TB >> limit. > > Hadn't thought of that, doesn't look good. > -Ben > > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 > benc's password: Issue number one -- don't use fdisk, as it doesn't support devices that big. Use parted instead: parted /dev/sdc mklabel gpt mkpart primary ext2 0 11TB quit where you may have to sub some other value for the "11TB" in the mkpart line -- I forget the exact syntax. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/