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SubjectRe: Partitions: Amiga RDB partition on 2 TB disk way too big, while OK in AmigaOS 4.1
By the way, what did you use to setup the Amiga RDBs?

{^_^} Joanne Dow

On 2012/06/17 01:33, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Sorry, forgot to keep Cc.
>
> I think I will keep the disk as is for a while. I just won´t plug it to
> the Amiga, since I have my Amiga backup on another dedicated
> disk and do not want to overwrite my Linux backups. So its available
> for testing for a while. It should be save as long as I use the disk
> in Linux only.
>
> For safety I will recreate all backups. I can checksum the BTRFS based
> backup partition for checksum errors, but fscking the other non
> BTRFS ones will only give a vague hint.
>
>
> Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
>> Hi Jens, hi Linux m68k developers,
>>
>> I reported that as
>>
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511
>>
>> I will attach there some more debug data like binary copy of RDB and
>> such.
>>
>> But maybe its easier to discuss here.
>
> I think this one is pretty serious:
>
> merkaba:~> pvdisplay /dev/sdb1
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name /dev/sdb1
> VG Name steigerwald
> PV Size 1,82 TiB / not usable 4,08 MiB
> Allocatable yes
> PE Size 4,00 MiB
> Total PE 476931
> Free PE 105731
> Allocated PE 371200
> PV UUID ZXMECC-JAir-lX8Q-rLhS-W1cS-quwz-b3FXWp
>
> merkaba:~> vgdisplay steigerwald
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name steigerwald
> System ID
> Format lvm2
> Metadata Areas 2
> Metadata Sequence No 7
> VG Access read/write
> VG Status resizable
> MAX LV 0
> Cur LV 5
> Open LV 1
> Max PV 0
> Cur PV 1
> Act PV 1
> VG Size 1,82 TiB
> PE Size 4,00 MiB
> Total PE 476931
> Alloc PE / Size 371200 / 1,42 TiB
> Free PE / Size 105731 / 413,01 GiB
> VG UUID uhjjE1-0yrD-Ch1A-d9qL-P5jY-UDXE-io4bpi
>
>
> with
>
> merkaba:~#1> amiga-fdisk -l /dev/sdc
> Disk /dev/sdc: 3 heads, 16 sectors, 81396441 cylinders, RDB: 0
> Logical Cylinders from 43 to 81396440, 24576 bytes/Cylinder
>
> Device Boot Mount Begin End Size Pri BBlks System
> /dev/sdc1 * 43 65536043 1572864024 0 0 Linux
> native
> /dev/sdc2 * 65536044 78643244 314572824 0 0
> [unknown]
> /dev/sdc3 * 78643245 81396440 66076704 0 0 Amiga
> FFS Int.
>
>
> Due to truncating oversized partition instead of refusing to use
> them the PV and consequently VG span the whole disk instead
> of leaving space for the >350GB in the two other partitions:
>
> merkaba:~> cat /proc/partitions
> major minor #blocks name
>
> […]
> 8 16 1953514584 sdb
> 8 17 1953513552 sdb1
>
> (now sdb instead of sdc back when I run amiga-fdisk)
>
>
> This is just asking for trouble. Thus:
>
> Bug 43521 - Amiga RDB partitions: truncates miscaluted partitions size
> instead of refusing to use it
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43521
>
>
> My suggestion is to bail out if a partition size looks insane and
> impossible.
> Having to manually fix it up to access the data on disk still looks better
> to me than potentially overwriting lots of data.
>
>
>
> Until today I never actually did an Amiga backup to the disk, I just
> created the two Amiga partitions and copied some screenshots of them
> but that might be enough to explain the checksum errors I found in a
> BTRFS backup partition.
>
> I am now checking my Linux backups. They might be save, cause not all
> space on the volume group is used.
>
> See:
>
> kernel got struck while scrubbing BTRFS with node- and leafsize 32768
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg17108.html
>
> s/struck/stuck
>
> Thanks,
>

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