mke2fs -F -T hugefile test.img 4T Creating filesystem with 1073741824 4k blocks and 1048576 inodes Superblock backups stored on blocks: Allocating group tables: done mke2fs: Invalid argument while zeroing block 1073741808 at end of filesystem Writing inode tables: done Creating 1 huge file(s) : done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 1073741824 blocks The physical size of the device is 131072 blocks Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt! Abort? no Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information test_filesys: 13/1048576 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 1073709417/1073741824 blocks Exit status is 0 debugfs -R "extents /store/big-data" test.img Last logical block: 1073610751 Last physical block: 1073741823