A few relevant comments (inline below) On Saturday 30 September 2006 07:10, Shawn Everett wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have a server running CentOS 4.2 with a 2.6.9-22EL-smp kernel. Why not run a fully updated centos-4? > The system contains a 2.3 TB RAID 5 array. There is a 20GB root partition > with the remainder of the drive configured one large LVM volume. (/u0) > ... > I cannot do any of the following to the backup file: Use cat, dd or cp to > copy the file. The first part of the file aproximately 24MB will copy and > then I get the error message: Input/output error Booting from it implies that you have a "normal" partition table on the 2.3T device, this does not work (dos style MBRs only works with <2T). Most people boot from a small and independent device and uses gpt (see parted) on the big device or no table at all (lvm directly on the device). Good luck, Peter > Checking dmesg shows: > dm-0: rw=0, want=31933816664, limit=4838391808 > attempt to access beyond end of device > dm-0: rw=0, want=32472792952, limit=4838391808 > attempt to access beyond end of device > dm-0: rw=0, want=33011769240, limit=4838391808 > attempt to access beyond end of device > dm-0: rw=0, want=33550745528, limit=4838391808 > attempt to access beyond end of device > dm-0: rw=0, want=34089721816, limit=4838391808 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060930/ca514926/attachment-0005.sig>