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From: Mark F <mfaine@knology.net>
To: Ext3-users@redhat.com
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: create very large file system
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:58:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9qtel$hcf$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060721153722.GA20270@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

Stephen Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:10:56AM -0500, Mark F wrote:
>> Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3
>>
>> I've tried to create a large 5TB file system using both reiserfs and ext3 
>> and both have failed.
>>
>> I end up with only a 1.5TB file system.  Does anyone know why this doesn't 
>> work, what to do to fix it?
> 
> I fixed a bug in mke2fs that had this result over a year ago, so a
> recent e2fsprogs should fix it.
> 
> Failing that, there's a workaround: use "mke2fs -b 4096" to prevent
> mke2fs from trying to work out the device size in units of 1k blocks.
> Counting in 4k blocks prevents a 32-bit overflow.
> 
> --Stephen

Thanks,

I finally got it formated using the GPT label with parted.  I formatted it 
reiserfs, it takes a few seconds to mount but seems to work fine and shows up at 
full size.

-Mark

      reply	other threads:[~2006-07-21 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-19 12:10 create very large file system Mark F
2006-07-19 12:57 ` Alexander Zarochentsev
2006-07-19 13:24   ` Mark F
2006-07-20  6:26   ` Andreas Dilger
2006-07-20  7:11     ` Clay Barnes
2006-07-20 16:46       ` David Masover
2006-07-20 11:17     ` Christian Iversen
2006-07-20 15:02       ` Andreas Dilger
2006-07-20 16:22       ` Jonathan Briggs
2006-07-20 16:56         ` Avuton Olrich
2006-07-20 17:32           ` David Masover
2006-07-21 15:37 ` Stephen Tweedie
2006-07-21 15:58   ` Mark F [this message]

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