From: btmarshall (brianflesheatingants.com)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 17:24:12 CDT

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Thank you,that has solved the problem.
I didn't notice anything in the man page for newfs or the platform notes for
sparc64. Did I miss this in the documentation somewhere?
Thanks again!

Otto Moerbeek wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, btmarshall wrote:
>
>> When I create a disklabel and newfs the filesystem more than a few gigs
>> on
>> either one of my Ultra1 sparc64 boxes, I can't mount them (mount_ffs:
>> invalid parameter) until I run an fsck and fix the superblock.
>> Here's an example:
>>
>> # disklabel -E sd0
>> This platform requires that partition offsets/sizes be on cylinder
>> boundaries.
>> Partition offsets/sizes will be rounded to the nearest cylinder
>> automatically.
>>
>> Initial label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt)
>> > p
>> device: /dev/rsd0c
>> type: SCSI
>> disk: SCSI disk
>> label: ATLAS V 18 SCA
>> bytes/sector: 512
>> sectors/track: 425
>> tracks/cylinder: 4
>> sectors/cylinder: 1700
>> cylinders: 20907
>> total sectors: 35566499
>> free sectors: 35566499
>> rpm: 7200
>>
>> 3 partitions:
>> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
>> c: 35566499 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -
>> 20921*
>> > a
>> partition: [a]
>> offset: [0]
>> size: [35566499] 33333333
>> Rounding to nearest cylinder: 33333600
>> FS type: [4.2BSD]
>> > a
>> partition: [b]
>> offset: [33333600]
>> size: [2232899]
>> Rounding to nearest cylinder: 2232100
>> FS type: [swap]
>> > w
>> > q
>> No label changes.
>> # newfs /dev/sd0a
>> newfs: /dev/sd0a: not a character-special device
>
> This is your problem. Always create filesystems on the raw partitions
> (/dev/rsd0a in this case). I can reproduce your problem here, and it
> disappears if I use the correct device.
>
> -Otto
>
>> Warning: cylinder groups must have a multiple of 16 cylinders
>> /dev/sd0a: 33333600 sectors in 39216 cylinders of 2 tracks, 425
>> sectors
>> 16276.2MB in 107 cyl groups (368 c/g, 152.73MB/g, 19584 i/g)
>> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>> 32, 313280, 625632, 938880, 1251232, 1564480, 1876832, 2190080, 2502432,
>> 2815680, 3128032, 3441280, 3753632, 4066880,
>> 4379232, 4692480, 5004832, 5318080, 5630432, 5943680, 6256032, 6569280,
>> 6881632, 7194880, 7507232, 7820480, 8132832,
>> 8446080, 8758432, 9071680, 9384032, 9697280, 10009632, 10322880,
>> 10635232,
>> 10948480, 11260832, 11574080, 11886432, 12199680,
>> 12512032, 12825280, 13137632, 13450880, 13763232, 14076480, 14388832,
>> 14702080, 15014432, 15327680, 15640032, 15953280,
>> 16265632, 16578880, 16891232, 17204480, 17516832, 17830080, 18142432,
>> 18455680, 18768032, 19081280, 19393632, 19706880,
>> 20019232, 20332480, 20644832, 20958080, 21270432, 21583680, 21896032,
>> 22209280, 22521632, 22834880, 23147232, 23460480,
>> 23772832, 24086080, 24398432, 24711680, 25024032, 25337280, 25649632,
>> 25962880, 26275232, 26588480, 26900832, 27214080,
>> 27526432, 27839680, 28152032, 28465280, 28777632, 29090880, 29403232,
>> 29716480, 30028832, 30342080, 30654432, 30967680,
>> 31280032, 31593280, 31905632, 32218880, 32531232, 32844480, 33156832,
>> # fsck /dev/sd0a
>> ** /dev/rsd0a
>> BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
>>
>> LOOK FOR ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCKS? [Fyn?] y
>>
>> USING ALTERNATE SUPERBLOCK AT 32
>> ** File system is already clean
>> ** Last Mounted on
>> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
>> ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
>> ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
>> ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
>> ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
>> 1 files, 1 used, 8200710 free (14 frags, 1025087 blocks, 0.0%
>> fragmentation)
>>
>> UPDATE STANDARD SUPERBLOCK? [Fyn?] y
>>
>>
>> ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
>> #
>>
>> I've run this on a vanilla 4.1 install, as well as a stable
>> kernel/userland
>> upgraded as of last night.
>>
>> Any clues?
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