I'm afraid I can't apply this workaround
giant ouput files are not in ascii format (it's the output of sadc command)
what I'm looking for is a way to exclude such ghost devices from any system...
Each slice must not ovewrite other so start sector for a slice should be last sector of previous one + 1
I.g. in your table you can't create slice 1 because first sector should be 1007583
that is...
My scheduled collection of statistics is giving very large output because of an high number of ssd device not associated to any disk
The iostat -x command is collecting statistics from them and the...