[Samba] Problem with Share Size

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Feb 16 16:49:16 GMT 2007


On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:45:56PM +0100, Antoine Rocher wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I found the problem (sorry message is in french) :
> 
> mke2fs -j -b 4096 -n /dev/sdc1 
> mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) 
> mke2fs: Système de fichiers trop grand. Pas plus de 2^31-1 blocs (8TO pour 
>          une taille de blocs de 4K) ne sont actuellement supportés. 
> 
> No more than 2^31-1 blocks in a ext3fs, 8Tb for a 4K block size ... And my disk has a little more.

Great - thanks for the info. You might want to try
xfs instead on this system - I think the limits on
xfs are better.

Jeremy.


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