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Re: Undeletable file

To: Vincent Bernat <bernat@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Undeletable file
From: Grzegorz Wieczorek <gigo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 19:26:17 +0100 (CET)
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <m3y9l2u1p8.fsf@xxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
 Sorry, have read the "Re:" first. So I think if you really don't want to
reboot, you can statically compile something like rm on another machine
that for sure supports LFS, and use it...

Grzegorz Wieczorek

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Vincent Bernat wrote:

> Hi !
>
> [I have already posted this message this week-end, however, it seems
> that it has been lost]
>
> I compiled dosemu a few days ago and I have experienced some lockups
> on the creation of some files. I don't know if these lockups are due
> to XFS. But finaly, dosemu works fine.
>
> However, I have a file that I cannot delete, list or do anything on
> it.
>
> sh-2.03$ ls -l emufs.s.out
> ls: emufs.s.out: Value too large for defined data type
> sh-2.03$ du emufs.s.out
> du: emufs.s.out: Value too large for defined data type
> sh-2.03$ rm emufs.s.out
> rm: cannot remove `emufs.s.out': Value too large for defined data type
>
> I have an "old" glibc (2.1) which doesn't support large file. Is there
> a way (via a C program ?) to delete this file ? I think it is a sparse
> file (I have no room for a more than 2 GB file).
> --
> BOFH excuse #8:
> static buildup
>
>


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