From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Dunlop Subject: Re: make filesystem failed while the capacity of raid5 is big than 16TB Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:37:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <505033fe.8aec440a.5d52.ffffe37b@mx.google.com> Reply-To: chris@onthe.net.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 2012-09-12, vincent wrote: > Hi, everyone: > I am Vincent, I am writing to you to ask a question about how= to > make file system about my raid5. > I created a raid5 with 16 *2T disks, it was OK. > Then I used mk2fs to make file system for the raid5. > Unfortunately, it was failed. > The output was: > # mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/md126 > mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) > mke2fs: Size of device /dev/md126 too big to be expressed i= n 32 > bits > using a blocksize of 4096. > Is anyone had the same problem? Could you help me? > The version of my mdadm is 3.2.2, and the version of my kerne= l=C2=A0is > 2.6.38 You need a newer mke2fs: file systems > 16 TB weren't supported until 1= =2E42: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.42 Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html