diff --git a/lib/internal/errors.js b/lib/internal/errors.js
index d990f8d5a106aa..260939710ab549 100644
--- a/lib/internal/errors.js
+++ b/lib/internal/errors.js
@@ -1218,7 +1218,7 @@ E('ERR_FS_CP_SYMLINK_TO_SUBDIRECTORY',
   'Cannot overwrite symlink in subdirectory of self', SystemError);
 E('ERR_FS_CP_UNKNOWN', 'Cannot copy an unknown file type', SystemError);
 E('ERR_FS_EISDIR', 'Path is a directory', SystemError, HideStackFramesError);
-E('ERR_FS_FILE_TOO_LARGE', 'File size (%s) is greater than 2 GiB', RangeError);
+E('ERR_FS_FILE_TOO_LARGE', 'File size (%s) is greater than 2 GiB is not supported with fs.ReadFile. Use fs.createReadStream instead to read larger files in chunks', RangeError);
 E('ERR_HTTP2_ALTSVC_INVALID_ORIGIN',
   'HTTP/2 ALTSVC frames require a valid origin', TypeError);
 E('ERR_HTTP2_ALTSVC_LENGTH',