On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 13:16 -0800, linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > First was the /etc/log/last file said it was 1T bytes long. > Second was the locate command would initially work ( locate -u ) but somewhere > along the line, a subsequent locate -u would fail. Locate string was ok. The > command would first do a segmentation fault then the next locate -u would hang. That will be a "sparse" file - one with lots of empty, unallocated space in it. "du /etc/log/last" should tell you how much space it's taking up on disk. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
