Hello, gzip (at least my version, v1.10 running on Fedora 33) apparently uses an unsigned 32-bit value when displaying the uncompressed size of a gzipped file.
This demonstrates the problem:
Create a 5GiB test file:
$ fallocate -l $((5*1024*1024*1024)) fatfile
Compress it:
$ gzip -c fatfile > fatfile.gz
List the contents:
$ gzip -lv fatfile.gz
method crc date time compressed uncompressed ratio
uncompressed_name
defla 193838c3 May 14 19:53 5857306 1073741824 99.5%
fatfile
As you can see, the value in the "uncompressed" column is exactly 1GiB.
Regards,
Robert Urban
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