Re: rm software problem..

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

"Virgil Anderson" <address@hidden> writes:
> I have a 40g drive partitioned, which has a file generated by a
> supersize tar which I need to remove.
> But when I try the rm i get an error message as follows: 

> cannot remove....<file name>  value too large for defined data type.

> a solution would be appreciated - fileutils version is 4.01

This is an very old version of GNU Fileutils, could you try the latest
version from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils and see if the problem still
persists there?  If it does, then try the beta version at
alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils.  And report back a detail report of what
you did, what you expected and what system you are running.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt