On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:26:52 -0500, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:19:01AM -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > > >"if this is a 64 bit machine... the nfs nobody user has UID of -1... > > >which is a lot on 64 bit" > > Good thing nobody logs in as nobody :-) > > Or is there anybody? > > Lots of things switch to 'nobody', and this may get logged. A quite interesting discussion. Something must get logged at some point: $ ll /var/log/lastlog -r-------- 1 root root 1254130450140 Mar 1 20:01 /var/log/lastlog $ ll -h /var/log/lastlog -r-------- 1 root root 1.2T Mar 1 20:01 /var/log/lastlog Now I wish I had a 1.2 Terabyte disk in my laptop ;). Using "ls -hs" shows the actual size to be 52 kB. Actually this is very close to the value reported by the OP, so perhaps he also has a 64-bit machine. It has sort of been suggested, but for the OP, the "du" program is very useful for telling you how much space things take up. I especially like "du -hs *" which tells you the size of each of the directories in the current directory. Also, check out "df" and "df -h" Note that all of these should be run in a terminal. Lastly, if you are trying to use Ghost, then you actually may not be able to go from a 160 GB disk to a 36 GB disk. Ghost, as far as I know, creates an image of the disk, which is a direct binary copy. You should be able to do this on a partition-by-partition basis if the partitions are the same size, but I would still be careful. Perhaps a better choice would be to boot to the rescue CD and simply mount the partition to copy from and to copy to and just copy the files with "cp -a". Jonathan
