Bug 40569

Summary:	fdisk won't read flat file images greater than 2 GB
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	bcling
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description bcling 2001-05-14 17:16:43 UTC

Description of problem:
fdisk won't handle large image files created with dd, returning a message
of "Unable to open <filename>" followed by the command prompt.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dd if=/dev/hdb of=hdb.iso
2. fdisk hdb.iso
3. "Unable to open hdb.iso" is printed
	

Expected Results:  Should be able to handle these files (under 2GB is not a
problem).

Additional info:

Tested on 4GB and 8GB hard drive images.

Comment 1 bcling 2001-07-16 14:32:45 UTC

My (very limited) understanding is that _LARGEFILE_SOURCE and 
_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE need to be defined, but I haven't been able to get this to
work.

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2001-07-18 18:47:25 UTC

I've got a patch for this in my package now.