On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 04/20/2016 12:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Weiner, Michael <weinerm(a)ccf.org> wrote:
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>> [root@raos_apps01 ~]# mke2fs -n /dev/sdb1
>> mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
>> mke2fs: Filesystem too large. No more than 2**31-1 blocks
>> (8TB using a blocksize of 4k) are currently supported.
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> Sounds like it's creating ext2 by default which is what I'd expect
> with this command. Use mkfs.ext3 instead or you need to pass '-t ext3
> -O ^has_journal' to mke2fs.
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I think you can just use -j to make it switch to ext3.
But Michael, I thought you were trying to save the filesystem, not wipe it?
I'm assuming he'll continue to use -n because if he doesn't it's toast.
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Chris Murphy