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Bug 42110

Summary: File command fails on large files
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jeremy Sanders <jss>
Component: fileAssignee: Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Jeremy Sanders 2001-05-24 11:04:39 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Creating a file large than 2GB, and then using the file command on it fails:

[creating temp.file from /dev/zero...]

[root@xpc1 jss]# ls -lH temp.file 
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system       2.9G May 24 12:06 temp.file
[root@xpc1 jss]# file temp.file 
temp.file: can't stat `temp.file' (Value too large for defined data type).


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. follow procedure above
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Additional info:
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-06-11 22:15:57 UTC 
This bug seems to be the same as #27199
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27199
Comment 2 Jeremy Sanders 2001-06-12 08:45:13 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27199 ***