On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:14, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a peculiar problem. I am currently running potato. > Downloaded perl5.6* from testing and started to compile. After > some 3 or 4 minutes the process aborted (98.41% sucessful) :-( > > So, I thought I would just delete the diretory. But a > directory `t' in perl-5.6.1 is giving trouble. rm ls and du > produce the same message. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1$ rm -rf t/ > rm: cannot remove `t/big': Value too large for defined data > type rm: cannot remove directory `t': Directory not empty > > Now, how do I get rid of this directory?
maybe.. cp /dev/null ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big or cat /dev/null > ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big then try rm -rf? HTH, Jesse
