[Bug 2063369] Re: e2image reports invalid argument when used with big partitions

[Jaromír Cápík]

Well ... the tool could print all possible reasons of the failure to
avoid confusion. Writing one byte at the last position seems to me a
good solution. If that's acceptable, it would really improve the user
experience. Thank you.

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Title:
  e2image reports invalid argument when used with big partitions

Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It seems e2image is unable to work correctly with large filesystems. I
  get the following error with etx4 on top of 48TB RAID5 array.

  # e2image -pr /dev/md3 md3.e2i
  e2image 1.46.5 (30-Dec-2021)
  Scanning inodes...
  Copying 802818 / 1547571 blocks (52%) 00:02:21 remaining at 20.50 MB/sseek_relative: Invalid argument

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