Re: ext2 file too big...

[Ax <ax@capitol.cz>]

Dne út 27. listopad 2001 10:22 Chad C. Walstrom napsal(a):
> Looks like /var/lib/mailman/data got corrupted.  The file was simply too
> big and I can't do anything about it.  Deleting doesn't work, etc.
> Anyone have pointers on how to recover from such a problem?

I had this once, got rid of it by tarring empty file over it, effectively 
truncating it to sensible size:

touch /tmp/something; tar cf /var/lib/mailman/data /tmp/something

Ax
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