[CentOS] Creating 38TB ext4 FS

Peter Wood peterwood.sd at gmail.com
Fri Sep 20 21:27:21 UTC 2013


XFS worked. Thanks a lot.


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:

> On 20.09.2013 21:58, Peter Wood wrote:
> > mkfs.ext4 fails to create 38TB file system on CentOS 6.4 64bit with
> > this
> > error:
> >
> > mkfs.ext4: Size of device /dev/vg02/vtapes too big to be expressed in
> > 32
> > bits
> >         using a blocksize of 4096.
> >
>
> EXT4 filesystems are limited (on RHEL) to 16TB. You should be using XFS
> for such large volumes.
>
> --
> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
>
> Nux!
> www.nux.ro
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>



More information about the CentOS mailing list