Wrong file size, is it dangerous?

Ricardo Galli Granada (gallir@atlas-iap.es)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 19:01:25 +0100 (MET)

Hi all,
I was suprised today. I found a mailbox in my 2.0.36 to be to
big to be true

star:/home/var/spool/mail # ls -l .ptocarmen.bad
-rw------- 1 ptocarme root 3221220956 Mar 5 03:17 .ptocarmen.bad

As you can see, it says it has almost 3.2 GB which is wrong:

gallir@star:/home/people/gallir > df /home
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda5 7484124 2022590 5073644 29% /home

df reports we are using just 2.GB of the filesystem.

The i-node information seems wrong, my question is:

1. Can I delete it safely? (I am scared to do it, I even trying to avoid a
reboot...)

2. How can I see what's wrong in the file? I tried to do lseek and I am
getting errors. How can I send you more useful information?

3. May be it was a NFS problem from a 2.2.1 client? I was using NFS for
the volumes, not anylonger due to the known NFS bugs...

Thanks.

--
Ricardo Galli






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