From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:04:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:04:39 -0400 Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.57]:24595 "HELO smtp013.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:04:25 -0400 X-Apparently-From: From: Steve Brueggeman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: God Subject: Re: [BUG?] :: "Value too large for defined data type" Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:04:36 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: >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* ># > ># 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? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com