If we move from RHEL6 to RHEL7, do we need to reformat ext4 in order to support higher than 16TB?
Issue
- We have 16TB ext4 partition and have hit the limit in RHEL6. We wanted to expand the disk further by using RHEL7 which has a limit of 50TB.
- If we move from RHEL6 to RHEL7, do we need to reformat the disk in order to support higher than 16TB?
- Can I grow a pre-existing ext4 filesystem on RHEL7, or does a filesystem larger than 16Tb require a
mkfs.ext4
to create a new supported filesystem?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- ext4 Filesystem larger than supported limit on RHEL6 (ie: between 16Tb and 50Tb)
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