Getting error during formatting drive in vxfs filesystem?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • While trying to create a vxfs filesystem on a multipath (native RH multipathing) device, the following error was received:
[root@server]# /sbin/mkfs -F vxfs -o largefiles, bsize=8192 /dev/sdm  
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)  
mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - bsize=8192

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5

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