On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:09:38PM -0700, Frank Chen wrote: > I noticed that /var/log/lastlog is almost 20M. What's > this file for? Can I reduce its size? I am trying to > squeeze the /var directory into a small space. It's not as big as you think -- it's a "sparse" file, in which null data doesn't actually take up disk space. Try "du -h /var/log/lastlog" to see the amount of disk space it's actually taking -- probably only a few K. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 79 degrees Fahrenheit.
