On Monday 18 May 2009 20:56:05 Chris Weston wrote: > I'm trying debug an issue with my one of my disks in my system. I have an > ext3 file system mounted and ls -l is reporting an impossible size for two > of the files: log_1848_1239927341.core and log_1848_1239927341.core~. The > size is 98P. This partition (/dev/sdb2) is only a few GB in size. I thought > there could be a possible corruption of the filesystem, but when I mount > the partition with debugfs, it reports the correct size for the files. In > addition, fsck finds no errors.
use `stat` on the file and run your ls through `strace -v` to see what structure you're getting back from the kernel also, you should report what version of coreutils you're actually using. that can be found by doing `ls --version`. -mike _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils