I'm in a bit of a pickle; I created a nice shiny new 4000GB partition in parted 1.8.8 (on gentoo, kernel 2.6.19) a few weeks ago and started piling on the data. After an unexpected reboot due to a pulled power cord, the XFS partition not only refuses to mount, but completely fails to repair as well.
After pulling my hair out with xfsprogs for the better part of the day, I checked the partition in parted, and discovered something has gone horribly wrong: The disc is still detected as being 4000GB, but the primary partition size is now being reported as 1801GB. The result of printing the partition table looks like this: Model: AMCC 9550SX-12M DISK (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 4000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 1801GB 1801GB primary xfs (Another smaller 1600GB partition on the same controller shows up fine). I really don't know what I'm doing here, but I am afraid this is going to have to do with some 2TB limit thing, although I'm not sure why if I was able to create the 4000GB partition the first time around. I would really, desperately like to be able to somehow recover the contents of the partition, but this looks pretty grim. Is there any way to restore the partition to its original, correct size -- even if only temporarily, so that the data can be rescued -- without obliterating all of the data from the device? Any help would be very greatly appreciated. Cheers, Kevin W. _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
