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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 02:16:15 -0600
From: Damacus Porteng <kernel@bastion.yi.org>
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Subject: Arg.  File > 2GB removal
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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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