Re: 2.4: "access beyond end of device" after ext2 mount

[Mario Holbe]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:55:47AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> I suppose that what happens is the following:
> mounting sets the blocksize to 4096.
> After reading 9992360 sectors, reading the next block means reading
> the next 8 sectors and that fails because only 6 sectors are left.
> Test that this is what happens using blockdev --getbsz.

Yes! This was the command I was looking for ;)

root@darkside:~# blockdev --getbsz /dev/hdg7
4096
root@darkside:~# blockdev --getbsz /dev/hdg6
1024
root@darkside:~# mount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/hdg6 /mnt
root@darkside:~# umount /dev/hdg6 
root@darkside:~# blockdev --getbsz /dev/hdg6
4096

> If you want to restore the device to full size, use
> blockdev --setbsz 512.

Does that in any way hurt, if a filesystem is just mounted?
I mean, what would happen, if I mount /dev/hdg7 and then
set the block size back to 1024? Would that perhaps corrupt
my filesystem or something like that?


Mario
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