Martin Jungowski wrote:
We're trying to create a 27TB partition on openSUSE 11.2 x86_64 and seem to be running into issues with e2fsprogs. Here's what happens:
root/bebd1$ mkfs.ext4 -v /dev/sdd1 mke2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) mkfs.ext4: Size of device /dev/sdd1 too big to be expressed in 32 bits using a blocksize of 4096.
root/bebd1$ uname -a Linux bebd1 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
All hitherto posts related to this problem seem to indicate that the underlying tools, such as mkfs itself, are still 32-bit even on a 64-bit system and that fixing this is top priority. That was as of April 2009 - is it possible that this issue has not been resolved yet?
Or, to be more specific: what do I need to do in order to create a 27TB ext4 filesystem?
Thanks, Martin
Martin, This is what I get from my system on the binaries: /sbin/mke2fs: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped /sbin/mkfs.ext4: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped Not sure if this helps or not. -Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org