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<section id="blocks">
<h1><span class="section-number">2.1. </span>Blocks<a class="headerlink" href="#blocks" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>ext4 allocates storage space in units of “blocks”. A block is a group of
sectors between 1KiB and 64KiB, and the number of sectors must be an
integral power of 2. Blocks are in turn grouped into larger units called
block groups. Block size is specified at mkfs time and typically is
4KiB. You may experience mounting problems if block size is greater than
page size (i.e. 64KiB blocks on a i386 which only has 4KiB memory
pages). By default a filesystem can contain 2^32 blocks; if the ‘64bit’
feature is enabled, then a filesystem can have 2^64 blocks. The location
of structures is stored in terms of the block number the structure lives
in and not the absolute offset on disk.</p>
<p>For 32-bit filesystems, limits are as follows:</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Item</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>1KiB</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>2KiB</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>4KiB</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>64KiB</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Blocks</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Inodes</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>File System Size</p></td>
<td><p>4TiB</p></td>
<td><p>8TiB</p></td>
<td><p>16TiB</p></td>
<td><p>256TiB</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Blocks Per Block Group</p></td>
<td><p>8,192</p></td>
<td><p>16,384</p></td>
<td><p>32,768</p></td>
<td><p>524,288</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Inodes Per Block Group</p></td>
<td><p>8,192</p></td>
<td><p>16,384</p></td>
<td><p>32,768</p></td>
<td><p>524,288</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Block Group Size</p></td>
<td><p>8MiB</p></td>
<td><p>32MiB</p></td>
<td><p>128MiB</p></td>
<td><p>32GiB</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Blocks Per File, Extents</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Blocks Per File, Block Maps</p></td>
<td><p>16,843,020</p></td>
<td><p>134,480,396</p></td>
<td><p>1,074,791,436</p></td>
<td><p>4,398,314,962,956 (really 2^32 due to field size limitations)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>File Size, Extents</p></td>
<td><p>4TiB</p></td>
<td><p>8TiB</p></td>
<td><p>16TiB</p></td>
<td><p>256TiB</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>File Size, Block Maps</p></td>
<td><p>16GiB</p></td>
<td><p>256GiB</p></td>
<td><p>4TiB</p></td>
<td><p>256TiB</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>For 64-bit filesystems, limits are as follows:</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
<col style="width: 20.0%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Item</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>1KiB</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>2KiB</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>4KiB</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>64KiB</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Blocks</p></td>
<td><p>2^64</p></td>
<td><p>2^64</p></td>
<td><p>2^64</p></td>
<td><p>2^64</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Inodes</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>File System Size</p></td>
<td><p>16ZiB</p></td>
<td><p>32ZiB</p></td>
<td><p>64ZiB</p></td>
<td><p>1YiB</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Blocks Per Block Group</p></td>
<td><p>8,192</p></td>
<td><p>16,384</p></td>
<td><p>32,768</p></td>
<td><p>524,288</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Inodes Per Block Group</p></td>
<td><p>8,192</p></td>
<td><p>16,384</p></td>
<td><p>32,768</p></td>
<td><p>524,288</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Block Group Size</p></td>
<td><p>8MiB</p></td>
<td><p>32MiB</p></td>
<td><p>128MiB</p></td>
<td><p>32GiB</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Blocks Per File, Extents</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
<td><p>2^32</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Blocks Per File, Block Maps</p></td>
<td><p>16,843,020</p></td>
<td><p>134,480,396</p></td>
<td><p>1,074,791,436</p></td>
<td><p>4,398,314,962,956 (really 2^32 due to field size limitations)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>File Size, Extents</p></td>
<td><p>4TiB</p></td>
<td><p>8TiB</p></td>
<td><p>16TiB</p></td>
<td><p>256TiB</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>File Size, Block Maps</p></td>
<td><p>16GiB</p></td>
<td><p>256GiB</p></td>
<td><p>4TiB</p></td>
<td><p>256TiB</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Note: Files not using extents (i.e. files using block maps) must be
placed within the first 2^32 blocks of a filesystem. Files with extents
must be placed within the first 2^48 blocks of a filesystem. It’s not
clear what happens with larger filesystems.</p>
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