Can't create file bigger than 2GiB with dd
Issue
Trying to create a file larger than 2GiB using dd fails:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=2G.file bs=2G count=1
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=3G.file bs=3G count=1
$ ls -lrt
total 4198416
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 2147479552 Mar 14 10:10 2G.file
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 2147479552 Mar 14 10:10 3G.file
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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