Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ext4 - grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block <BLOCKID>

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM, James Broadhead
<jamesbroadhead@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 December 2011 14:14, James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ext4: "fill_buffer on unknown block <BLOCKID> out of range"
>
> Apologies; the correct message is:
> grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 18446744072382021139 for device sdb1
>
> This appears 42 times immediately following mount.
>
> Running picasa today, it informed me that one of the files I was
> working with was corrupted (but put the message in a box too small to
> read the full path).
>
> This makes me think that perhaps the disk is bad.  Any advice, aside
> from the usual "get your data off asap"?

Does it happen to be a >2TB USB drive? I remember reading about
problems with some of those. It works in Windows with the factory
partition/FAT tables because of tricks they do to the addressing that
works in Windows, but once you reformat it you can't access the >2TB
areas. Something like that... As far as I recall, you could
repartition to create a 2TB or smaller partition and that would work,
but then the rest of the drive was inaccessible.