[CentOS] Centos 5.1 ext3 filesystem limit

[Jeffrey Tadlock]

On Feb 7, 2008 2:17 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?

You will want to look at this article from the Red Hat Knowledge Base:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_11461.shtm

It should help.

--Jeffrey