On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael weinerm@ccf.org 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.