Relax-and-Recover (rear) indicates that a disks size is significantly larger than the actual physical size during a restoration

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Issue

  • ReaR uses a value for disk size that does not match physical disk info. The disk size determined by rear is 9592809455616B bytes according to the disklayout.conf generated The correct size is visible in the fdisk output below:
    <snip>
    WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion.

    Disk /dev/sda: 1199.1 GB, 1199101181952 bytes, 292749312 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
    Disk label type: gpt
    <snip>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • rear
    • Advanced Format (AF) hard disks

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