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

[Theodore Ts'o]

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 the following experiment and see what you get?

# strace -e open e2image /dev/vdc /tmp/vdc.e2i

I see this:

open("/tmp/vdc.e2i", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 4

Which tends to show that large file support *is* enabled.

Thanks,

                                        - Ted