RAID1 size issue with PDC20265

[paul moore]

--- Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:49:21AM -0500, Alex Ryabtsev wrote:
> > Hi Heinz,
> > 
> > while I was on research of possible fix of my problem, I saw someone
> > else has it too, but I barely will be able find it again. And one more,
> > let me clarify the issue:
> > tight now, I am using rc5 (I tried to switch to rc6, but as I mentioned
> > - it is changing set name (from pdc_fiaaeaab to pdc_bahdfcgbc) and
> > instead of five 1,2,3,5,6 (I have extended partition as well) it creates
> > only first three.
> 
> Alex,
> 
> can you send your partiton table output
> (ie, fdisk -l /dev/mapper/pdc_bahdfcgbc)
> and your metadata in a tarball (ie, "dmraid -rD;
> tar jcvf pdc-raid1-Alex_Ryabtsevin.tar.bz2 *dat *size *offset") ?
> Use 1.0.0.rc6 to run "dmraid -rD" so that we get the *size files as well
> (rc5f didn't support creating those).
> 

Heinz,

 It could have been that he created the extended partition larger
than the disk size (depending on what he partitioned it with) expecting
something larger. Rc6 checks for partitions running off the end of the
disk. Hmm, could use an error message. Anyway, shall see.

 Later,
  Paul


		
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