On 04/21/2016 10:08 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote:
> mkfs.ext3 -F -b 4096 -n /dev/sdb1
> >Note that I don't have a CentOS 5 system around for testing, and I don't
know what mixing -F and -n does.
Yeah I was a little nervous about that, and as such, I didn’t try it:) because the
flags are also counter to one another.
Nonetheless, if you created a 15TB ext3 filesystem using the vendor's
tools, you would have *had* to use "-F -b 4096". You're not going to
locate superblock backups using any other set of arguments.