Why am I unable to format a volume bigger than 16TB using the EXT4 filesystem?
Issue
- Unable to partition a 32TB volume in ext4 using mkfs.ext4. A message reports the volume as being too big.
- We see the following error message:
Size of device too big to be expressed in 32 bits using a block size of 4096
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- EXT4 filesystem
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