How do I create a 16TB ext4 filesystem on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Issue
- How do I create a 16TB ext4 filesystem on Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
- Receiving the following error message when attempting to create an ext4 filesystem:
mkfs.ext4: Size of device /dev/sdb1 too big to be expressed in 32 bits using a blocksize of 4096.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 and later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and later
- ext4
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