[PVE-User] Maximal disk image size

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Tue Sep 29 16:48:52 CEST 2015


If you use ext3, file size is limited to 2TB.

see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3

So please use ext4 if you want bigger files.

> On September 29, 2015 at 2:23 PM Michael Rasmussen <mir at miras.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> This is only a problem with 32-bit VM's
> 
> On September 29, 2015 1:16:54 PM CEST, Dmitry Petuhov <mityapetuhov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >Hello, all.
> >
> >There's question arouse. Does KVM in PVE have some limitation on disk 
> >size? I've seen reports that with qcow2 there are problems with >2TB. 
> >Are there same difficluties with RAW images? Or can I connect, say, 512
> >
> >TB image from ceph to single VM?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
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