Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block BLOCKID

2011-12-13 Thread James Broadhead
On Dec 13, 2011 12:25 a.m., Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:03 PM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: Does it happen to be a 2TB USB drive? I remember reading about problems with some of those. It works in Windows with the factory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block BLOCKID

2011-12-13 Thread James Broadhead
On 2011-12-13, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:03:32AM +, James Broadhead wrote So on returning to this machine, I see that another USB disk that I have connected to it is also having those messages printed about it. This leads me to suspect that it's

[gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block BLOCKID

2011-12-12 Thread James Broadhead
On 12 December 2011 14:14, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: ext4: fill_buffer on unknown block BLOCKID out of range Apologies; the correct message is: grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744072382021139 for device sdb1 This appears 42 times immediately following

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block BLOCKID

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 December 2011 14:14, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: ext4: fill_buffer on unknown block BLOCKID out of range Apologies; the correct message is: grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block BLOCKID

2011-12-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 12.12.2011 21:33, schrieb James Broadhead: On 12 December 2011 14:14, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: ext4: fill_buffer on unknown block BLOCKID out of range Apologies; the correct message is: grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744072382021139 for device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block BLOCKID

2011-12-12 Thread Adam Carter
I've looked at the kernel code that causes the error message. It verifies that this is most likely a dead disk: It would be worth running smartctl from smartmontools to see what it knows of the disks status.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block BLOCKID

2011-12-12 Thread James Broadhead
On 12 December 2011 20:55, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: Apologies; the correct message is: grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744072382021139 for device sdb1 This appears 42

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block BLOCKID

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:03 PM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: Does it happen to be a 2TB USB drive? I remember reading about problems with some of those. It works in Windows with the factory partition/FAT tables because of tricks they do to the addressing that works in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block BLOCKID

2011-12-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:03:32AM +, James Broadhead wrote So on returning to this machine, I see that another USB disk that I have connected to it is also having those messages printed about it. This leads me to suspect that it's either an ext4 bug or the situation that you mentioned