Re: Arg. File > 2GB removal

[CaT <cat@zip.com.au>]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:16:15AM -0600, Damacus Porteng wrote:
> 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     

Hrm... This is with 2.2.18:

[18:17:15] hogarth@theirongiant:/data>> dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=4000000
dd: testfile: File too large
2097152+0 records in
2097151+0 records out
[18:21:07] hogarth@theirongiant:/data>> rm testfile
[18:24:16] hogarth@theirongiant:/data>> 

So it worked for me... Regardless though have you tried

>testfile
rm testfile

?

-- 
CaT (cat@zip.com.au)

	'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.'
		-- The Backstreet Boys
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/