Re: [BUG?] :: "Value too large for defined data type"

[Steve Brueggeman <xioborg@yahoo.com>]

I don't have a non-LFS system available to me right now, so I haven't
tested this, but  how about truncating the files first...

bash# >box1.071401.dump
bash# >test
bash# rm box1.071401.dump test

Steve Brueggeman



On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:22:05 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

<snip>
>Trying to check where dump should have written the file on box2, I get:
>
># ls -al
>/bin/ls: test: Value too large for defined data type
>total 2097216
>drwxrwxrwx   2 root     root        32768 Aug 14 23:27 ./
>drwxrwxrwx  50 root     root        32768 Aug 14 21:02 ../
>-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     root     2147483647 Aug 14 22:11
>box1.071401.dump*
>#
>
<snipage>
># echo *
>box1.071401.dump test
>#
>
>I tried to remove the file using rm, but I get the same error as ls:
>
># rm test
>rm: cannot remove `test': Value too large for defined data type
># 
>
>
>Any thoughts?  


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