Comment 1 for bug 1695229

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Chenjun Shen (cshen) wrote :

According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306522 and https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/152171/badblocks-only-takes-32-bit-integer-as-start-end-values, 32bit limit seems to be intentional.

One quick fix will be to use "badblocks -b 4096" instead of default "1024".