Problem with a large partition

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:42 PM,  <aragonx at dcsnow.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a 22TB partition that I would like to use.  I am using a 64bit CPU
> and used parted to create a partition and to format it.  It created an
> ext2 partition that I was in the process of converting to ext4.  This is
> where I hit a snag.  Here is the error I got:
>
> # e2fsck -fDC0 /dev/sdb1
> e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
> Error determining size of the physical device: File too large
>
> Moving forward, I'm going to have to have e2fsck.  fsck appears to be
> provided by util-linux-ng.i686.  Shouldn't that be a 64bit version?
>
> Here is some system information:
>
> uname -a
> Linux ftp.temp.org 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:41:45 EST
> 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Like Steven said, you may be using a 64 bit processor but your only
running a 32 bit operating system.

Richard