Re: Problems after installing Coreutils 5.0.91 or other 5.0.x on Gentoo 1.4

[Bob Proulx]

Edmund wrote:
> I've experienced a very interesting bug with Coreutils.  The system is 
> running on Athlon XP, 1G ram with a 200MB WD IDE drive.  My linux is 
> installed at the end of the drive (past 170GB) with Windows XP at the 
> beginning.

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> With the base installation's fileutils 4.1.11 everything is fine, but after 
> the system updates itself to coreutils, some of the file operations are 
> broken.  I'm suspecting this is due to problems with lba 48, but I'm not sure.
> 
> ls returns all files with size "1759218604416"
> cp says "skipping file "name", as it was replaced while being copied
> 
> mv and rm seem to be okay
> I'm not sure if any other commands are affected.

This seems to be a problem with your filesystem.  Filesystems are part
of the kernel.  Nothing an application space program like ls or cp can
do about it if the filesystem is not behaving properly.

> I have tried the installation on smaller non lba48 hard drives without 
> incident, and maybe I'll try to install it on a partition under the 128GB 
> limit after I re-partition the drive.

You will need to look at your filesystem closely.  But there is
nothing that can be done in user space if it is not working.

Bob