Re: lastlog is huge

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david smethurst wrote:
hi all ive been trying to ghost over my drives from 160gb to a 36gb and
couldnt figure out why it keep saying that the destination drive was too
small.
then i found this:
in /var/log/lastlog is 1168.0GB
its locked of course but please what can i do about this and why is it
so big?
the drive is not big enough for the size so something else is wrong
question? how can i tell how big everything is?
i tried to use the file size view in konqueror and it just keeps locking
up all the time so that i cant use it anymore and go to the home
directory

/var/log/lastlog is a sparse file. See http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixbman/admnconc/sparse_files_under.htm for an explanation of sparse files.


# du -k /var/log/lastlog
will tell you how many kilobytes it's actually taking up on disk.

Paul.


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