"Dr. Gustav Quade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> for an advanced scientific project we use a large server with 64Gbyte
> memory and 10TB disk space. Since some jobs will run for several weeks
> we plan to use virtual machines which can be saved during maintenance
> tasks.
>
> Using kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1-xen x86_64 I can create a several terabytes
> large partition using yast. Using xfs I created a 4.7 terabytes large
> file.
> df -k:
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sde1            6835799424 4608001068 2227798356  68% /test
>
>
> Fdisk, sfdisk or cfdisk show wrong partition size.
>
> yast:
> /dev/sde │          6.3 TB│   │Areca-ARC-1280-VOL#04
> /dev/sde1│          6.3 TB│   │Linux native         │/test
>
> fdisk -l /dev/sde
>
> Disk /dev/sde: 6999.9 GB, 6999999774720 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 851034 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sde1               1       48986   393479629+  83  Linux

Please file a bug for this in bugzilla, fdisk should show the right
data.

> After "exporting" the disk to DomU the partition can't be mounted.
>
> mount /dev/hdc1 /test
> mount: /dev/hdc1: can't read superblock
>
> fdisk shows the same results as in Dom0
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hdc
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 6999.9 GB, 6999999774720 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 851034 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdc1               1       48986   393479629+  83  Linux
>
> but yast in DomU is not able to recognize the correct partition size.
>
> /dev/hdc │          6.3 TB│   │DISK hdc    │
> /dev/hdc1│        375.2 GB│   │Linux native
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. why fdisk is not showing the correct partition date?
> 2. is xen forwarding the partition parameters correctly?

Does it work if you are not using Xen?  I mean: Can you create such a
file with our default x86-64 kernel?

Andreas
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