"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:20:17PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
>
> :rm: cannot remove `/tmp/save.tar': Value too large for defined data type
> :
> :I was storing the save.tar in /tmp. I'm running stable version with kernel
> :2.4.0. I have tried as root also to remove this file. How can I get rid
> :of this bugger?
>
> Try `cat /dev/null > /tmp/save.tar` worked for similar problems on
> different OS...
If you get the error message:
bash: /tmp/save.tar : cannot overwrite existing file
which means the -C (noclobber) option is set, you can use:
`cat /dev/null >| /tmp/save.tar`
to override noclobber.
Bob
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