Can't create file bigger than 2GiB with dd

Solution Unverified - Updated -

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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