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[psfan]

System: Knoppix linux, kernel 2.6.x, file system ext3, amule 2.2.2

After amule completed a job, I didn't find the corresponding file in the .amule/Incoming directory which was set as incoming directory in the amule.conf.     From the total size of  the amule director reported by "du" command I found that the whole directory did not contain the finished file.      But from the size reported by "df" command I found that the entire ext3 partition was occupied by some "invisible" file (not a hidden file with a dot prefix) whose size was exactly the same as the amule job.     I'm sure the file exists on my disk because I can see from amulegui that the file is uploading now as a shared file.  What' more, this problem only occurs when I download files larger than 4G.

Is it a bug of amule ?  And the most important things is How Can I Make My File Visible?

[Stu Redman]

Did you get any messages in the log file ?
How much free space do you have on your partition ? More than the size of your file ?

[psfan]

Did you get any messages in the log file ?
How much free space do you have on your partition ? More than the size of your file ?

Thank you for your concerning.

I didn't get any abnormal messages about this issue in the log file. I'm sure the free space is absolutely enough - even it is allocated I still get >40G free space of the ext3 partition. Since the file is invisible but occupies the space, neither can I copy this file nor can I remove it.

[skolnick]

If aMule is uploading the file, then the file must be there somewhere. Just do a find / | grep filename or something like that to get its position, but I'm pretty sure aMule is getting the uploaded data from it.

Regards.

[Kry]

It's somewhere in your filesystem. Do you use categories at all?

[Archmage]

Did you check the files in the .Temp-folder?

[psfan]

I'm sure that the file is in .amule/Incoming directory, but I cannot delete the Incoming directory by 'rm -rf Incoming' command.    And I can handle the INVISIBLE  file by the name shown in amulegui with programs such as file, cp, mv.      Not all programs can handle it, for example, md5sum, ls.

So I move the file to another place. The file is still invisible, but I can list it in flashfxp (in winxp), proftpd as ftp server.

Now I can copy this file by 'downloading', hope I can remove it to recycle disk space.

Thank you all.

[Archmage]

If the filename starts with a dot (.), try to rename it.

[psfan]

If the filename starts with a dot (.), try to rename it.

There's no DOT (.) before the file name. And whatever name I changed, the file remained invisible in 'ls -a' command, but it showed in proftpd. I don't know why, may be it's a bug of ext3 filesystem.

[skolnick]

No, it's not a bug in ext3, I have files a lot bigger than 4GB (Virtual machines, dual-layer DVD images) and all work perfectly. Most likely something is wrong with your knoppix setup. Try copying the file to a non-ext3 partition (USB drive, for example) and see if it appears OK.

Regards.