Bug 641656

Summary:	e4fsck cannot handle large filesystems
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Ben Cotton <bcotton>
Component:	e4fsprogs	Assignee:	Eric Sandeen <esandeen>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version:	5.5
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Description Ben Cotton 2010-10-10 00:57:27 UTC

Description of problem:
e4fsck fails on large filesystems (16 TB) with "Error determining size of the physical device: File too large"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 1.41.9

How reproducible:
Always
  

Additional info:
Problem is fixed in upstream version 1.41.12.  According to BZ #604809, this update is scheduled for RHEL 5.6, but it would be nice to fsck large filesystems with channel-provided utilities until then.

Comment 1 Eric Sandeen 2010-10-10 03:07:11 UTC

You can lobby your support channels for a "z-stream" release prior to 5.6, but since it's tech preview in 5.5 I'm afraid you may need to wait.  Won't hurt to ask though.

Comment 2 Eric Sandeen 2011-03-09 21:11:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 604809 ***