access beyond end of device?

[Frank DiPrete]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 15:59 -0400, Brian Chabot wrote:
> I just noticed a somewhat disturbing entry in my logs....
> 
> Jul  8 15:35:23 hostname kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Jul  8 15:35:23 hostname kernel: hdb1: rw=0, want=7144059272, limit=40017852
> Jul  8 15:35:23 hostname kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Jul  8 15:35:23 hostname kernel: hdb1: rw=0, want=7144059272, limit=40017852
> 
> So I checked the disk:
> $ ls -la /dev/hdb1
> lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 33 Apr 26 16:20 /dev/hdb1 -> 
> ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
> $  df -h /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
>                        19G   12G  6.7G  63% /home
> WTF?
> 
> Running a search for this was not all that helphul.  It seems the 
> consensus is that the device is one size and Linux seems to be 
> configured for a different size.  Does that sound right?
> 

perhaps the partition and file system are different sizes.


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