Trying to mount 13 Tb disk on RedHat system.

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Margaret Doll a écrit :

> Problem comes with creating a filesystem on the logical volume
> 
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg0/lv0
> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> mkfs.ext3: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks
>      (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
> 
> Is 8 Tb the largest filesystem you can mount on a RedHat system.
> 
> Our system is 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen... 86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So ext3 has a 8TiB limitation, even with 64bits kernels, it's good to know.

If you really need a +8TiB and a journaling filesystem you would have to 
wait until RHEL 5.4 and use XFS has suggested before.

Nicolas

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