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From: Damacus Porteng <kernel@bastion.yi.org>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Arg.  File > 2GB removal
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 02:16:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001223021615.A8201@bastion.sprileet.net> (raw)

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.
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             reply	other threads:[~2000-12-23  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-23  8:16 Damacus Porteng [this message]
2000-12-23  7:20 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-23  7:27   ` William T Wilson
2000-12-23  7:30     ` William T Wilson
2000-12-23  7:26 ` CaT
2000-12-23  7:27 ` Andreas Jaeger

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