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badblocks: Value too large for defined data type invalid end block (4394573824): must be 32-bit value

Bought a new large external disk as data sink for my server at home. The disk is 18TB and after the previous purchase had a hardware problem I wanted to make sure that this one is working. Created a partition, formatted it with ext4 and let's run a badblocks check on it. That failed, badblocks can't handle Big Data.