Anaconda errors with "Your /mount_point partition is too large for xfs formatting" when using larger than 16TB paritions in RHEL 6.4

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Issue

  • Anaconda gives the following error when trying to create xfs partitions greater than 16TB:
Automatic Partitioning Errors:
The following errors occured with your partitioning

Your /mount_point partition is too large for
xfs formatting (allowable size 
is 19010825 MB to 16777216 MB)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) < 6.4
  • anaconda < anaconda-13.21.215-1.el6

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