Re: Arg. File > 2GB removal

From: CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 02:26:27 EST

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    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

    Hrm... This is with 2.2.18:

    [18:17:15] hogarth@theirongiant:/data>> dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=4000000
    dd: testfile: File too large
    2097152+0 records in
    2097151+0 records out
    [18:21:07] hogarth@theirongiant:/data>> rm testfile
    [18:24:16] hogarth@theirongiant:/data>>

    So it worked for me... Regardless though have you tried

    >testfile
    rm testfile

    ? 

    -- 
CaT (cat@zip.com.au)

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