Bug#855246: e2image: "Value too large for defined data type" while writing file bigger than 2GiB

tags 855246 +pending thanks Thanks for reporting this bug. It will be fixed in the next release of e2fsprogs. - Ted commit 6ca38e8c7dbc4b443602eae2781701b40c90edaf Author: Theodore Ts'o Date: Tue Aug 22 17:09:31 2017 -0400

Bug#855246: e2image: "Value too large for defined data type" while writing file bigger than 2GiB

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:29:17PM +0100, G.raud wrote: > According to the webpage > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Value-too-large-for-defined-data-type > "It means that your version of the utilities were not compiled with > large file support enabled." Can you try

Bug#855246: e2image: "Value too large for defined data type" while writing file bigger than 2GiB

Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.43.3-1 Severity: important An strace of the failing e2image program giving an image file size just below 2GiB (on a 32 bit platform): -- # LC_ALL=C strace e2image /dev/mapper/share share.img 2>&1 | tail -n15 lseek(4, 4096, SEEK_CUR)= 2147471360