On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 08:01:52AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Now, after the disk_image has arrived, it looks very odd. fdisk > thinks it is 8 times bigger than it really is, and thinks it has 4K > sectors. I can't use "kpartx" to get at the partition inside it, and > fsck.ext4 doesn't like its first partition at all.
In case anyone is still following this, I asked about it on the LVM mailing list and got some more interaction there, but it's still a mystery. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-lvm/9322d044-faff-597d-8cab-bf71ed7e9...@service4.ru/T/#t It seems to be off-topic there: I think we've established that there are problems whether LVM is involved or not, and that LVM has no function to work around this. But it may continue a little longer while there are useful suggestions. Included in that thread is a full list of commands I used to create a test case on the 512e host and move the disk image to the 4kN host, in case anyone else wants to replicate the problem. I don't think you'd need LVM, or MD RAID, to replicate it. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting