#LargeFile

seanpm2001 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦οΈseanpm2001@techhub.social
2024-05-09

I was browsing system files earlier this week, and I found this strange bug: there was a file that claimed to be 140.7 terabytes in size. My laptops hard drive is 4 terabytes, and all of my hard drives combined (including the one in my laptop) is only half of this amount. It isn't normal for an integer overflow, as if it was a 64 bit overflow, it should have been in the petabyte or exabyte range, not the terabyte range. #bugs #ubugtu #ubuntu #linux #overflow #system #largefile

(TN x Basic Permissions Name core Type  Link to program crash data (application/x-core) R Ty N S Size 140.7 TB (140,737,471,594,496 bytes) Parent folder /dev Accessed Mon 06 May 2024 10:45:24 AM PDT Modified Mon 06 May 2024 10:45:24 AM PDT Created β€”

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