Re: Version 2.4.1 has ext2 problems.

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> On  2 Feb 01 at 14:44, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > # rm *
> > rm: cannot remove `#1006': Value too large for defined data type
> > rm: cannot remove `#1057': Value too large for defined data type
> > rm: cannot remove `#1140': Value too large for defined data type
> > ls: #588: Value too large for defined data type
> > [SNIPPED...]
> > 
> > lstat("#1057", 0xbffff2c0)              = -1 EOVERFLOW (Value too large for defined data type)
> 
> Too old fileutils, and maybe glibc. They do not handle >2GB files.
> And 'rm', for some strange reason, first 'lstat' file before removing
> it. As workaround, do:
> 
> cd lost+found
> for a in *; do echo > $a; done
> rm *
> 
> BTW, who created that files? Maybe there is some way to get through
> 2GB limit check without saying O_LARGEFILE? But more probably stupid 
> software using O_LARGEFILE without knowing consequences...
>                                                       Petr Vandrovec
>                                                       [e-mail]

Thanks. The work-around was to make another file-system. Unfortunately
truncating a file with `>filename` also fails. The files were created
by e2fsck after a crash with version 2.4.1. The entire file-system
was reduced to junk.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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