eeeek...my filesystem is turning into swiss cheese!!

[Andrew Mathews]

"Net Llama!" wrote:
> 
> I've really done it this time.  I installed a version 4.1 of fileutils,
> and it appears to have hosed the filesystem in a very bad way. BTW, this
> box is Redhat based, using XFS.
> 
> *Every* single file on the box now has a size of 16T (yes, terrabytes).
> Now as wonderful as it would be to have a few petabytes of storage in a my
> mini-ATX workstation, reality tells me that's not the case.
> 
> Everything is working just fine, even df reports accurate results, but i
> know something is badly broken, and i fear rebooting the box.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
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> Lonni J Friedman                                netllama at linux-sxs.org
> Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo                  http://netllama.ipfox.com
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> _______________________________________________

Since "ls" is part of the fileutils package are you sure that the files
are hosed or is it "ls" that's  hosed? What happens if you cat /dev/null
> /tmp/xyz ; ls -l /tmp/xyz ? Is it a 16T file?
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Andrew Mathews
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