Arg. File > 2GB removal

From: Damacus Porteng (kernel@bastion.yi.org)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 03:16:15 EST


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

'ls' complains about the same. I ran e2fsck -f /dev/hde6 (the partition of
/home) and it didn't 'find' the problem.

How do I remove this file and reclaim the HDD space?

Thanks,

D.
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