resize4fs: File too large while trying to determine filesystem size

resize4fs: File too large while trying to determine filesystem size

[Ling Ho]

Hi,

I am trying to resize a ext4 filesystem. I am using e4fsprogs 1.41.12.

My device is actually 17TB. I can live with just using 16TB of it if 
that's what's supported. But when I tried to increase the size by 
specifying the size, I get this error:

# resize4fs /dev/sdb 16000G
resize4fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
resize4fs: File too large while trying to determine filesystem size
# resize4fs /dev/sdb 15000G
resize4fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
resize4fs: File too large while trying to determine filesystem size


I also tried 16T and 15T, and get the same thing.

# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

    8     0  243163136 sda
    8     1   16779861 sda1
    8     2    6289447 sda2
    8     3    6289447 sda3
    8     4          0 sda4
    8     5    4192933 sda5
    8     6    4192933 sda6
    8     7    4192933 sda7
    8     8  201222126 sda8
    8    16 17560535040 sdb

# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             16253924   9484080   5930852  62% /
/dev/sda8            194917600  66106672 118749824  36% /u1
/dev/sda6              4061540     83700   3768196   3% /tmp
/dev/sda3              6092388    221168   5556748   4% /opt
/dev/sda2              6092388   4701480   1076436  82% /var
/dev/sda5              4061540     73800   3778096   2% /var/tmp
tmpfs                 16481060         0  16481060   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb             2880829872 1505086604 1229405476  56% /u2

Can someone suggest I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
...
ling

Re: resize4fs: File too large while trying to determine filesystem size

[Eric Sandeen]

On 5/5/11 2:48 PM, Ling Ho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to resize a ext4 filesystem. I am using e4fsprogs
> 1.41.12.
> 
> My device is actually 17TB. I can live with just using 16TB of it if
> that's what's supported. But when I tried to increase the size by
> specifying the size, I get this error:
> 
> # resize4fs /dev/sdb 16000G resize4fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) 
> resize4fs: File too large while trying to determine filesystem size #
> resize4fs /dev/sdb 15000G resize4fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) resize4fs:
> File too large while trying to determine filesystem size

resize4fs indicates that you are on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system,
so this may go better through your Red Hat support contacts.

I have some open bugs similar to

Bug 654093 - [6.0]The resize2fs command fails to run on a 16TiB filesystem.

which was fixed in RHEL6.1.

> 
> I also tried 16T and 15T, and get the same thing.

Well, the issue is that the device itself is more than 16T, and the e2fsprogs
tools won't even touch it; e2fsprogs has never released more than 32-bit
support.  I would recommend resizing your device to something small enough
for e2fsprogs to handle.

Thanks,
-Eric

> # cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
> 
>    8     0  243163136 sda
>    8     1   16779861 sda1
>    8     2    6289447 sda2
>    8     3    6289447 sda3
>    8     4          0 sda4
>    8     5    4192933 sda5
>    8     6    4192933 sda6
>    8     7    4192933 sda7
>    8     8  201222126 sda8
>    8    16 17560535040 sdb 
> 
> # df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             16253924   9484080   5930852  62% /
> /dev/sda8            194917600  66106672 118749824  36% /u1
> /dev/sda6              4061540     83700   3768196   3% /tmp
> /dev/sda3              6092388    221168   5556748   4% /opt
> /dev/sda2              6092388   4701480   1076436  82% /var
> /dev/sda5              4061540     73800   3778096   2% /var/tmp
> tmpfs                 16481060         0  16481060   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sdb             2880829872 1505086604 1229405476  56% /u2

> 
> Can someone suggest I am doing wrong?
> 
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