Re: kernel Oops

[Jesse Goerz <jgoerz@linuxfreemail.com>]

On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:25, Ivan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I got this doing 'rm -rf sys.img'. sys.img was a file of 1400MB in a hfs
> partition. the file was deleted correctly at the second try. No error
> removing a 800MB file. Someone ( like benh ) is interested in? )
[...]
>
> Ivan

This doesn't answer your question but when you rm a 'file' that big why not 
just use:
cat /dev/null > sys.img

or:
cp /dev/null sys.img

then just rm it.  I have heard it's "safer" that way.

Jesse