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2005 Feb 16
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mke2fs options for very large filesystems (and corruption!)
...t whether ext3 can
realistically handle a filesystem this large. Since fdisk created a
DOS partition table, and that couldn't handle such a large partition,
I used parted to create a gpt partition of 3.5TB. We were then able
to mkfs and mount the filesystem. As a test, I filled it with:
cp 1_gig_file 1_gig_file.### (where ### ranged from 000 to 999)
and
dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=10M
I expected bigfile to crash out at 2TB, but actually it filled the
filesystem (created a 2.7TB file). The next bit is slightly muddled:
09:50 deleted the bigfile (this took a LONG time)
10:04 pulled a...