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Subject: Re: corruption on my ext2fs with 2.4.0-test10
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From: Adam Sampson <ats1@ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 03 Dec 2000 18:29:49 +0000
In-Reply-To: Mircea Damian's message of "Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:46:06 +0200"
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Mircea Damian writes:
> ... file-utils like ls, rm say:
> root@invasion:/usr/src/perl-5.6.0/t# ls -sail
> /bin/ls: big: Value too large for defined data type
> total 8
> 1097360    4 drwx------   2 504      1001         4096 Dec  3 13:43 ./
> 1354979    4 drwxr-xr-x   3 504      1001         4096 Dec  3 13:43 ../

The file's got holes in it (regions of zeros), so it doesn't occupy as
much space on disk as it claims to. The reason your normal tools can't
deal with it is that your C library has been built without LFS
support, so stat will fail on files larger than 2 gig.

You can remove it by just calling unlink.

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
	unlink("mybigfile");
}

-- 

Adam Sampson
azz@gnu.org

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