[dm-devel] loopX too small for target
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Wed Jun 8 05:28:00 UTC 2011
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:13:41PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> I've imaged the hard disk off of a CentOS 5 machine via dd which
> resulted in a 112GB file "gawaine.img":
>
> # file gawaine.img
> gawaine.img: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, boot drive 0x80, 1st sector stage2 0x8841; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 208782 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x8e, starthead 0, startsector 208845, 234227700 sectors, code offset 0x48
> [root at brick VM]# sfdisk -l gawaine.img
> Disk gawaine.img: cannot get geometry
>
> Disk gawaine.img: 14589 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> gawaine.img1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux
> gawaine.img2 13 14592 14580 117113850 8e Linux LVM
> gawaine.img3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
> gawaine.img4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
>
> I'm trying to access this image via kpartx, but running into the
> following:
>
> [root at brick VM]# losetup -a
> [root at brick VM]# kpartx -av gawaine.img
> add map loop0p1 (253:5): 0 208782 linear /dev/loop0 63
> device-mapper: resume ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> create/reload failed on loop0p2
> add map loop0p2 (0:0): 0 234227700 linear /dev/loop0 208845
> [root at brick VM]# dmesg
> device-mapper: table: 253:6: loop0 too small for target: start=208845, len=234227700, dev_size=234375000
>
> Hmm...
>
> [root at brick VM]# losetup -a
> /dev/loop0: [fd03]:2386057117 (gawaine.img)
> [root at brick VM]# ls -l /dev/mapper/loop0p1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 7 22:18 /dev/mapper/loop0p1 -> ../dm-5
>
> So only the non-LVM partitioned (much smaller) got mapped. Are there
> size limitations to what a loopback device can handle?
>
> [root at brick VM]# rpm -q kpartx util-linux-ng
> kpartx-0.4.9-31.el6.x86_64
> util-linux-ng-2.17.2-6.el6.x86_64
Looks like maybe there's something funky not only with the .img file,
but with the disk I dd'd from. Even on the physical disk, parted
complains:
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk
So somehow my partition table doesn't match up with my disk geometry...
Sounds like this likely has nothing to do with kpartx/losetup/dm after
all. Sorry for the noise.
Ray
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