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From: Naga <nagatoro@...>
Subject: Re: trouble creating an ext3 filesystem > 8TB
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:14:21 +0200
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 02.09.10 Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> After reading in the kernel changelog that 2.6.19 should support ext3
> filesystems up to 16TB in size, I tried to create an 11TB filesystem.
> Attempting to do so gets this error from mke2fs:
>
> # mke2fs -j -J size=400 -O sparse_super,dir_index -i32768 -m1 /dev/sda4
> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> mke2fs: Filesystem too large.  No more than 2**31-1 blocks
>          (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
[...]
> Any idea what I am missing?

Bigger blocksize?

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