From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
To: Damacus Porteng <kernel@bastion.yi.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Arg. File > 2GB removal
Date: 23 Dec 2000 08:27:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8lmt71ttc.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001223021615.A8201@bastion.sprileet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001223021615.A8201@bastion.sprileet.net>
>>>>> 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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prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-23 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-23 8:16 Damacus Porteng
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 [this message]
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