From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.8.1+) Gecko/20010430 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 2. 3. Additional info:
This bug seems to be the same as #27199 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27199
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27199 ***