[CentOS] Creating 38TB ext4 FS

Nux! nux at li.nux.ro
Fri Sep 20 21:05:31 UTC 2013


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.

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