"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > No! The disk size is specified in GB, though, so you just asked for a > 4TB file, which is beyond ext3's tiny little brains. Try something a > little smaller. :-) > > Yes, we should deal with this error better. One way to avoid the problem is to require a suffix on the size arguments, e.g. 2.6GB, 3200MiB, etc. Then there's no possibility for confusion.