What's up with 'dirname'?

[t048]

$ ls -lhS dirname
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 513G Feb 13 08:17 dirname*

Apparently [tt]dirname[/tt] is larger than the partition on which it sits (although I wouldn't mind a 513 gig drive ). [tt]dirname[/tt] is located in [tt]/usr/bin[/tt]. The next largest file is [tt]emacs-21.2.93*[/tt] weighing in at a meager [tt]4.3M[/tt]. I can't use the program.

$ dirname something
bash: /usr//bin/dirname: File too large

What do you suppose is causing [tt]dirname[/tt] to register as being so large?

[t048]

Well, I downloaded and recompiled sh-utils and replaced [tt]dirname[/tt] with the newly compiled version. The new version is only 52K, so I guess there are some features missing but it seems to work fine. I just wonder what happened that caused the file to show up as being so large.

[Schotty]

my bet, crapped out inode. If your hd has no fsck errors, that would be MY guess at least.

[gorn]

513GB? that's /tiny/

my friend once had his fstab pointing at an ext2 partition, then formated it ntfs. or maybe vice-versa. anyway then he did a ls -lh and it showed a /file/ not directory at the mount point that was 13EB (extabytes)