On 2012-09-12, vincent <hanguozhong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 in 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 kernel is > 2.6.38 You need a newer mke2fs: file systems > 16 TB weren't supported until 1.42: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1.42 Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html