On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael <weinerm@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>> >>>> But then the eftools complain and don’t work properly, example >>>> >>>> [root@raos_apps01 ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/sdb1 >>>> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) >>> >>> There's the problem. Why are you using such an ancient mkfs? That >>> version doesn't support big file systems. When I use this same command >>> on Fedora 23 which has 1.42.13, it works fine for ext2, ext3 and ext4 >>> on a virtual size 15TB file system and uses 4K block size. >> >> https://lwn.net/Articles/177820/ >> >> I'm not sure which version of e2fsprogs got this patch, but it seems >> pretty certain your file system was not created with mke2fs 1.39. > > This might be wrong. Try -n -F with this old version and see if it works. > > I don't know the consequences of forcing it, but you have what you > have, so you could try it if you're convinced you were using such an > old e2fsprogs. Related. -j isn't the same as mkfs.ext3 I guess, at least not with such old progs. tl;dr, best to use mkfs.ext3, mkfs.ext4, etc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594777 -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org