there's a file pixel.jpg that i used to use in my web pages but deleted.
got sick of seeing "file not found" in /var/log/apache/error.log, so i set
out to find the pages that still made reference to this deleted file.
i did a find /www -exec grep pixel.jpg \{} \; > pixelfind, and took a
shower.
i came back to find that i couldn't read my mail. mutt would start up, and
even show me the list of emails (the pager) but i couldn't view any of them.
after scratching my head for a bit, i did a df and found that / filled up
(6.5GB!). i started doing du -s and found an error message that looked like:
/www
Error: Value too large for defined data type
i went into /www, and did an ls:
# ls
ls: pixelfind: Value too large for defined data type
car/ index.html linux@ p/ prefs/ rhonda/ sabmag/ tests/ welcome/
i couldn't rm the file; every time i tried to rm the file, it would give the
same error message -- value too large for defined data type. i tried
everything i could think of.
the one thing that DID work was:
echo "" > ./pixelfind
which, of course, truncated the file to 0 bytes and i was able to delete it.
right now / is at 1.4GB, meaning that file must have been somewhere around
5GB. i must have screwed up royally on that find command. i don't see
anything wrong with it; i must have retyped it.
anyway, that was my first experience with a file that was too large. it was
interesting.
peter
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