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I have made a disk image file of /dev/sda1 partition which has windows xp recovery environment. The file is 20.1 GB stored on a ext4 partition, when I am going to open it with the tool of disks app to mount disk images, it says the following:Error opening /media/george/Storage/sda1.img : Value too large for defined data type.

(my language on ubuntu is greek, so I translated it from google translate). What does it means? Is the file too large to be mounted? Does it have any problem because it is made from a manufacturer partition designed for restoring windows xp?

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  • Are you on a 32-bit system? (If you're not sure, see System Settings/Details). – Jos Feb 15 '15 at 11:25
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    Hint for your language problem to avoid bad google translations: You can run a single command in the default fallback language (usually English) by typing LANG=C before the actual command in terminal. Example: LANG=C sudo apt-get update You can also start GUI applications like gparted in English this way: LANG=C gparted-pkexec& (gparted-pkexec is the executable name, & frees the terminal - it would belong to gparted otherwise and exiting the terminal window would also kill the GUI application) – Byte Commander Feb 15 '15 at 12:33
  • +Byte Commander Even though you are free to use the terminal for other stuff if you use the &, exiting the terminal would still kill the process. If you use LANG=C nohup > /dev/null gparted-pkexec &, you can then safely close the terminal. – Hitechcomputergeek Oct 08 '15 at 17:27
  • +Hitechcomputergeek Actually, an even better way is to use LANG=C setsid gparted-pkexec. – Hitechcomputergeek Nov 11 '15 at 04:12

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There's a relic called ulimit. For fun enter ulimit -a to see what's going on.

If you bump into any limits try ulimit -f unlimited and give it another go. More information about this forgotten and mostly unnecessary gem is found in the man page.

Edit: A bit more information is down this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14471564/what-does-ulimit-s-unlimited-do, but you want the file flag, which is -f.

Edit: and that would be sudo ulimit -f unlimited unless you are already root, but you probably knew that.

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