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Veritas™ Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)

Error Code details
V-76-25862-910
Severity: Information 
Component: Storage Foundation Windows 
Message:
Volume formatting operation failed.

 

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Solution 1 Vote: [Useful] [Not useful]
Last Modified: 2010-03-19 19:16:19
Platform: Generic
Release: Generic
Content:

When using the expand volume or vxvol growfs commands in Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows (VSFW) to grow a volume beyond 16TB, the volume will grow successfully but the file system may not grow beyond 15.9TB. This is due to limitations in the NTFS file system. An individual file system is limited to 2^32 - 1 clusters. With the default cluster size of 4K, this equates to approximately 16 terabytes. Volumes managed by VSFW can be much larger than this, but the file system is a separate logical layer from the underlying volume and is constrained by the limitations of NTFS.

Solution

To change the NTFS cluster size for a volume reformat the file system with the new cluster size, then restore the data from backup. This limitation is part of the NTFS file system,and cannot be worked around by VSFW.

For more information on the maximum size limits of NTFS file systems, refer to the following Microsoft TechNet article  http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/7e567bb0-59c7-413d-914d-cdcb55c1bbda1033.mspx?mfr=true
 

Note: Make sure to check the volume size and ensure that the volume is not currently used by other programs.