________________________________________ From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Doll, Margaret Ann [margaret_doll@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:14 To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: formatting a 12.73 Tb disk on ROCKS 5.2 I have a raid-5, /dev/sda on a NAS node that has 12.73 Tb of space. mkfs xfs /dev/sda1 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - /dev/sda1 I can use mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 works, but it only formats the first 2Tb of space. filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 19G 2.8G 16G 16% / /dev/sdb5 875G 200M 830G 1% /state/partition /dev/sdb2 4.8G 184M 4.4G 5% /var tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 2.0T 199M 1.9T 1% /bigdisk1 How do I get the complete raid system formatted? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sounds like /dev/sda1 is defined as a 2T partition? Run fdisk (or other partitioning tool) to see what partitions are defined on /dev/sda/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
