Re: Value too large for defined data type?

[Bob Hilliard <bob@bobhilliard.net>]

"Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu> 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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