If you are system administrator times forages on its systems but it is always something funny! Occasionally there are also things that shock the so correctly:

josh@zoom: ls -la kcore
-r-------- 1 root root 281474974621696 2009-01-20 15:34 kcore

josh@zoom: du -h kcore
4.0T kcore

To admit, I needed a moment to the number in the header to assemble. Then I started to wonder, however, immediately! Especially since the system has neither the 4TB storage, nor 4TB disks!

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Posted on 20th January 2009
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6 Comments on "My number of the day: 281474974621696"

  1. mymyselandi says:

    And what did you do against this value, or how did that happen? Have the same problem.

    • The problem seems to not be so easily solved: the problem of Linux distribution (in my case, SuSE Linux Enterprise 9).
      How did it come to this figure, I'm still a complete mystery: (

      On a SuSE 10.1, the whole thing was not to understand, on my CENTOS (RHES clone) boxes, unfortunately not.
      I once going from a bug in SLES.

  2. mymyselandi says:

    Very strange. Under the SLES10 I have that too. As long as this has no negative side effects, it is to me quite matter. Let's see, now possibly restart the server ...

    • Reboot is probably not a bad idea, but unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to restart the system ... Is a Productive calculator: (
      About feedback I would be happy, because then I would actually time to schedule a reboot of the system ;-)

    • @ mymyselandi, after several reboots and several tests: It seems really a bug in the SLES and OpenSuSE be different versions!
      Concomitants I absolutely could not see, but the ad is a bit weird.
      On a RHES 4 and RHES 5, I could not understand everything, but on SLES 9, 10 and even at 11 seems more or less to be normal. A colleague just announced that it will also display the OpenSuSE so.

  3. Klaus says:

    Would I also look for an answer, because I have the same problem.