From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: I have a 6985.9 GB external scsi raid drive (shows as 1 disk to os) that when I go mke2fs /dev/sdb1 in RHEL4 update 2 will only show as 363G when I do a df -h. The os sees this as ture and will only place 363G on drive (confirmed by trying to copy data to drive). Similar results occurr in mkfs and mkfs.ext3 if I run those. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): e2fsprogs-1.35-12.2.EL4,util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.fdisk /dev/sdb 2.delete partitions 3.create single partion for entire disk 4.mke2fs /dev/sdb1 5.mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /iscsi 6.df -h Actual Results: [root@server-backup ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 362G 15G 329G 5% / /dev/sda1 99M 13M 81M 14% /boot none 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdc1 193G 203M 183G 1% /var /dev/sdb1 363G 20K 345G 1% /iscsi Expected Results: [root@server-backup ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 362G 15G 329G 5% / /dev/sda1 99M 13M 81M 14% /boot none 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdc1 193G 203M 183G 1% /var /dev/sdb1 6.9T 20K 6.9T 0% /iscsi Additional info: Release notes from RHEL 4 Update 1 say this should work (ext3 support up to 8TB). I originally had this connecting via a sanrad scsi/iscsi gateway, but that has been removed, it is now directly connected via scsi.
What exactly does "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" show? U2 does support ext3 filesystems up to 8TB, but standard msdos partitioning is still limited to 2TB, so I suspect that it's actually an fdisk limit, not a filesystem one, that you are encountering. fdisk -l output will help to determine this.
Here you go. Dan [root@server-backup ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512) Disk /dev/sdb: 6985.9 GB, 6985999319040 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 106166 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 4096 = 65802240 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 106166 2527259612 83 Linux
Is this a x86_64 installation with e2fsprogs.x86_64? Please provide the output of 1) uname -a 2) rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{arch}\n" e2fsprogs
Thers is an update package of e2fsprogs: e2fsprogs-1.35-12.3.EL4 This update package should solve your problem.
Daniel, can you confirm that e2fsprogs-1.35-12.3.EL4 fixed this problem? Thanks, -Eric
I am unable to confirm as this machine no longer exists as specified in the original inquiry. Dan
Thanks Daniel. Closing for now, not sure there's a lot more to be done here - I'm going on the assumption that e2fsprogs-1.35-12.3.EL4 fixed it, as Thomas suggested.