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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.