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badblocks fails on large drives due to 32 bit value #175

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fennectech opened this issue Jan 21, 2024 · 1 comment
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badblocks fails on large drives due to 32 bit value #175

fennectech opened this issue Jan 21, 2024 · 1 comment

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[fennectech@jasper ~]$  sudo badblocks -nsv /dev/sde
[sudo] password for fennectech: 
badblocks: Value too large for defined data type invalid end block (23441833984): must be 32-bit value

we should switch to 64 bit values for these values to make badblocks functional on drives larger than 4tb
@JohnVeness
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Duplicate of #111

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