Oh, sorry, I thought the limit cannot be reached that easy in case of sparse files full of unalocated blocks. Apparently the limit includes the unallocated space.
I retested that again and the sparse file really gets truncated to 16TB and I believe that's exactly the moment when the tool should report some error like: "Unable to create sparse file of that size! Unsupported by the target filesystem." Instead of that the tool continues to extract data and after a long time it fails with Invalid argument. To prevent confusion, would it be possible to modify the code to make it fail immediately when it fails to create the sparse file of the required size? Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2063369 Title: e2image reports invalid argument when used with big partitions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/2063369/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
