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Error: partition length of 7518568448 sectors exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295

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From: Russell Jones <russell-list <at> jonesmail.me>
To: <bug-parted <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Error: partition length of 7518568448 sectors exceeds the
 loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:45:22 -0600

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Hi all, 

I have a 3.5TB logical volume made from two 1.75 TB
partitions / physical volumes. The partitions are being created on
CentOS 6.4 with parted 2.1. Whenever I do a "parted -l" I get the
following message: 

Error: partition length of 7518568448 sectors
exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295


lvdisplay works fine with no warnings/errors, and I can write data to
the logical volume. What exactly does this error mean and will it affect
the availability of my logical volume to store the full 3.5TB of data?


Thanks! 

 

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Message #8 received at 15804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
To: Russell Jones <russell-list <at> jonesmail.me>, 15804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15804: Error: partition length of 7518568448 sectors exceeds
 the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:00:30 -0500

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On 11/4/2013 3:45 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
> I have a 3.5TB logical volume made from two 1.75 TB partitions /
> physical volumes. The partitions are being created on CentOS 6.4
> with parted 2.1. Whenever I do a "parted -l" I get the following
> message:

parted 2.1 is exceedingly old, please upgrade.


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Message #11 received at 15804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Russell Jones <russell-list <at> jonesmail.me>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>, 15804 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15804: Error: partition length of 7518568448 sectors exceeds
 the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:10:16 -0600

Thanks, but just upgrading past what is considered a stable release on a 
production server is not the best method of resolving the issue in my 
opinion.

Is this message an actual error, or just a bug with the display of the 
partition information itself and nothing to be concerned about?


On 11/5/2013 12:00 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> On 11/4/2013 3:45 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
>> I have a 3.5TB logical volume made from two 1.75 TB partitions /
>> physical volumes. The partitions are being created on CentOS 6.4
>> with parted 2.1. Whenever I do a "parted -l" I get the following
>> message:
> parted 2.1 is exceedingly old, please upgrade.
>
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Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chris Murphy <lists <at> colorremedies.com>
To: "bug-parted <at> gnu.org" <bug-parted <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Russell Jones <russell-list <at> jonesmail.me>
Subject: Re: bug#15804: Error: partition length of 7518568448 sectors exceeds
 the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 12:58:24 -0700

On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:10 AM, Russell Jones <russell-list <at> jonesmail.me> wrote:

> Thanks, but just upgrading past what is considered a stable release on a production server is not the best method of resolving the issue in my opinion.
> 
> Is this message an actual error, or just a bug with the display of the partition information itself and nothing to be concerned about?

It's a valid question. Although I'm curious about the use case. The only time I've partitioned an LV rather than directly formatting it, is when using the LV as a backing store for a qemu/kvm VM via virsh/virt-manager. However in that case, to access the partition map and activate the individual partitions before mounting them, I used kpartx -a.

Chris Murphy

Message #17 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Russell Jones <russell-list <at> jonesmail.me>
To: "bug-parted <at> gnu.org" <bug-parted <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#15804: Error: partition length of 7518568448 sectors exceeds
 the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 17:16:01 -0600

On 11/9/2013 1:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> It's a valid question. Although I'm curious about the use case. The 
> only time I've partitioned an LV rather than directly formatting it, 
> is when using the LV as a backing store for a qemu/kvm VM via 
> virsh/virt-manager. However in that case, to access the partition map 
> and activate the individual partitions before mounting them, I used 
> kpartx -a. Chris Murphy 


Thanks Chris,

I'm not actually partitioning a logical volume ( can you even do that? 
:-) ), I'm building a logical volume from two separate physical volumes 
which are partitions on a disk. Example: /dev/sda4, /dev/sdb4 are PV's, 
part of 1 VG, and then a single LV in the VG.

When I do a parted -l on the system is when it gives that error.

Message #22 received at 15804-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
To: 15804-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15804: Error: partition length of 7518568448 sectors exceeds
 the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:19:35 -0500

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Closing since I can't reproduce this on 2.3 or higher.

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