[CentOS] Centos 5.1 ext3 filesystem limit

[Alain Spineux]

On Feb 7, 2008 8:17 PM, Gary Molenkamp <gary at sharcnet.ca> wrote:
>
> Centos 5.1 documentation states that the supported ext3 filesystem limit
> is 16TB,  yet I have a 9.5TB partition that is claimed to be too large:
>
> 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.
>
> Am I missing something?

Did you tried with  -j -b block-size
Did you tired by specifying the blocks-count

>
>  > uname -a
> Linux fileserver.sharcnet.ca 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 23
> 11:28:47 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
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