Re: rm software problem..
[email protected] (Alfred M. Szmidt)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
"Virgil Anderson" <[email protected]> writes: > I have a 40g drive partitioned, which has a file generated by a > supersize tar which I need to remove. > But when I try the rm i get an error message as follows: > cannot remove....<file name> value too large for defined data type. > a solution would be appreciated - fileutils version is 4.01 This is an very old version of GNU Fileutils, could you try the latest version from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils and see if the problem still persists there? If it does, then try the beta version at alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils. And report back a detail report of what you did, what you expected and what system you are running. Cheers, -- Alfred M. Szmidt