Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:20:03 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Arg. File > 2GB removal |
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you don't mention which kernel you are using, but for some time now ext2fs has been able to handle large files (>2GB) -- and I suspect dd created such a beast for you
rm probably stat'd the file beforing removing it -- and failed, because it's either old or uses and old library (which isn't LFS aware)
--cw
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:16:15AM -0600, Damacus Porteng wrote: For grins, I did `dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=4000000` Obviously, with the limits of ext2, this isn't allowed, however, dd continued marrily on its way, tho it spouted an error... I cancelled the dd and went to remove the file, though the following occured: root@obfuscated:/home/ftp# rm testfile rm: cannot remove `testfile': Value too large for defined data type 'ls' complains about the same. I ran e2fsck -f /dev/hde6 (the partition of /home) and it didn't 'find' the problem. How do I remove this file and reclaim the HDD space? Thanks, D. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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