Package: ufsutils Version: 7.2-3 Severity: important mkfs aborts when making a filesystem larger than 2048 MiB. This size limit (equivalent to INT32_MAX sectors) seems to indicate that it's using 32-bit signed types to measure number of blocks instead of unsigned 64-bit.
$ sudo mkfs.ufs /dev/ad1 Reduced frags per cylinder group from 94064 to 94056 to enlarge last cyl group /dev/ad1: 4194304.0MB (0 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 22832 cylinder groups of 183.70MB, 11757 blks, 23552 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 160, 376384, 752608, 1128832, 1505056, 1881280, 2257504, 2633728, 3009952, [...] 2144476960, 2144853184, 2145229408, 2145605632, 2145981856, 2146358080, 2146734304, 2147110528,mkfs.ufs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector -2147480544: Input/output error -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: kFreeBSD 7.2-1-amd64 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ufsutils depends on: ii libbsd0 0.1.6-1 utility functions from BSD systems ii libc0.1 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libedit2 2.11-20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ufsutils recommends no packages. ufsutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org