Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 23 Dec 2000 02:16:15 -0600 | From | Damacus Porteng <> | Subject | Arg. File > 2GB removal |
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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,
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