Re: Arg. File > 2GB removal

2000-12-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
> Damacus Porteng writes: > For grins, I did `dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=400` > 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 remov

Re: Arg. File > 2GB removal

2000-12-22 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, William T Wilson wrote: > If that's true, then the following C programlet should remove the file: I lied. You need to include not Oh no! This is linux-kernel. I thought it was debian-user. Sorry, didn't mean to waste bandwidth :} - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Arg. File > 2GB removal

2000-12-22 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > rm probably stat'd the file beforing removing it -- and failed, > because it's either old or uses and old library (which isn't LFS > aware) If that's true, then the following C programlet should remove the file: Replace "huge-file-name" with the full

Re: Arg. File > 2GB removal

2000-12-22 Thread CaT
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=400` > > 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 w

Arg. File > 2GB removal

2000-12-22 Thread Damacus Porteng
For grins, I did `dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=400` 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/f