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To: Damacus Porteng <kernel@bastion.yi.org>
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Subject: Re: Arg.  File > 2GB removal
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From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
Date: 23 Dec 2000 08:27:11 +0100
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>>>>> 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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