Re: Arg. File > 2GB removal

From: Andreas Jaeger (aj@suse.de)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 02:27:11 EST

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    >>>>> Damacus Porteng writes:

    > 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...
    With 2.4 it's allowed.

    > 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.
    You need an rm that's using the LFS interface.

    > How do I remove this file and reclaim the HDD space?
    Try:
    echo > testfile

    Andreas 

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