红帽/CentOS 6.5的e2fsprogs版本号为1.41.12较低。无法创建16TB以上的文件系统

下载最新的e2fsprogs，编译安装

ftp://ftp.ntu.edu.tw/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/

tar zxvf e2fsprogs-1.42.10.tar.gz

cd e2fsprogs-1.42.10

mkdir build

cd build/

../configure

make

make install 

 

mke2fs -O 64bit,has_journal,extents,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize -i 4194304 /dev/sda1

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

常见故障表现：

[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,

       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

       dmesg | tail  or so

[root@localhost ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)

mkfs.ext4: Size of device /dev/sda1 too big to be expressed in 32 bits

 using a blocksize of 4096.

[root@localhost ~]# mkfs.ext4 -b 8192

Warning: blocksize 8192 not usable on most systems.

mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)

mkfs.ext4: 8192-byte blocks too big for system (max 4096)

Proceed anyway? (y,n) y

Warning: 8192-byte blocks too big for system (max 4096), forced to continue

Filesystem label=

OS type: Linux

Block size=8192 (log=3)

Fragment size=8192 (log=3)

Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks

1464926208 inodes, 2929459075 blocks

146472953 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user

First data block=0

Maximum filesystem blocks=4311218176

44706 block groups

65528 blocks per group, 65528 fragments per group

32768 inodes per group

Superblock backups stored on blocks:

 65528, 196584, 327640, 458696, 589752, 1638200, 1769256, 3210872,

 5307768, 8191000, 15923304, 22476104, 40955000, 47769912, 143309736,

 157332728, 204775000, 429929208, 1023875000, 1101329096, 1289787624