Looking for ext2 & ext3 expert. This problem is on a ext3 partition.
I have a small file (1395 bytes) that appears HUGE when runing ls -l
(70368744179059 bytes). This causes a problem because tar wants to back
up all those extra bytes.
[root@secure parse]# ls -l HTMLFrameSet.class
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root devel 70368744179059 Mar 20 09:05
HTMLFrameSet.class
[root@secure parse]# wc HTMLFrameSet.class
15 58 1395 HTMLFrameSet.class
We have back ups of the file else where, but I'm afraid to delete it.
When I remove it what is going to happen to the file system? Kernal
version is 2.4.18 on i686 Is it safe to delete and recreate the file.
Do I need to unmount the FS and run fsck?
FYI error message from tar:
tar: HTMLFrameSet.class: File shrank by 70368744169331 bytes; padding
with zeros
No wonder my backups didn't finish :-) !!!!
Thanks for any insight.
