Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 02:22:36 -0300 | From | John R Lenton <> | Subject | Re: ln -l says symlink has size 281474976710666 |
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:47:16PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > ls -i (path)/imlib1; ls -i (path)/fd # record inode numbers > debugfs /dev/hdX > stat <inode_number> # '<' and '>' are required
burocracia:~# ls -i /usr/share/doc/|grep \ imlib1$ 404176 imlib1 burocracia:~# ls -i /dev/|grep fd$ 404192 fd burocracia:~# debugfs /dev/hda2 debugfs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 debugfs: stat <404176> Inode: 404176 Type: symlink Mode: 0777 Flags: 0x0 Generation: 2457884131 User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 281474976710666 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 1 Blockcount: 0 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x3a735ed8 -- Sat Jan 27 20:50:48 2001 atime: 0x3aaef4cd -- Wed Mar 14 01:34:21 2001 mtime: 0x3a735ed8 -- Sat Jan 27 20:50:48 2001 Fast_link_dest: imlib-base debugfs: stat <404192> Inode: 404192 Type: symlink Mode: 0777 Flags: 0x0 Generation: 1796859698 User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 281474976710669 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 1 Blockcount: 0 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x3a7308d5 -- Sat Jan 27 14:43:49 2001 atime: 0x3aaef4cd -- Wed Mar 14 01:34:21 2001 mtime: 0x3a7308d5 -- Sat Jan 27 14:43:49 2001 Fast_link_dest: /proc/self/fd
> send output. This should tell us if the badness is stored on disk or in > memory. Of course e2fsck would help as well. Were these newly created > inodes, or existing ones? If you shutdown and restart, does it go away? > Anything in syslog about ext2 warnings or errors?
this is after an e2fsck, after a reboot, after restart. Nothing in the logs. The inodes are as old as the system, which isn't all that old (circa the first release with reiserfs).
I did a find on the whole filesystem and I seem to have stumbled on the only two files with this problem by accident.
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