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alexofindy
Nov 13, 2012Aspirant
feature request - tool for offline expansion
I have a readynas ultra plus with four 3 TB drives, configured as X-RAID2. I cannot further expand the volume because I will hit the 8 TB lifetime expansion limit. This is because when I first con...
StephenB
Nov 17, 2012Guru - Experienced User
If you use a block size of 4K, then 32 bit block addressing will overflow at 16 TiB (2**32 * 4096 = 16 TiB). So when expanding to a volume size sizes above that, all the block addresses are extended to 64 bit. Chirpa is saying that resize2fs doesn't work with 64 bit block addresses.
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