From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): file-4.15-fc4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use dd to create an image (or portion of one) of an ext2 or ext3 file system dd if=/dev/hda1 of=filetest count=10000 2. Use file to id the file file filetest 3. It should fail to id the file Actual Results: # dd if=/dev/hda1 of=filetest count=10000 10000+0 records in 10000+0 records out # which file /usr/bin/file # file --version file-4.15 magic file from /usr/share/file/magic # file filetest filetest: Expected Results: # ./file --version file-4.16 magic file from ./magic # ./file filetest filetest: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery) (large files) # /usr/bin/file -m ./magic filetest filetest: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery) (large files) # Additional info: I downloaded and built file version 4.16 and it works just fine. Using magic built with v4.16, the FC4 installed version of file also worked fine (see expected results above). There appears to be a problem with magic included with the current version of the file distribution.
file-4.16, which fixes this issue, is already in rawhide