On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 04:58, George Hare wrote: > Would anyone know why Clamav ran through almost my entire file system > (FC4 64) for over an hour, just to freeze in the middle of /var/log? > Maybe they are too bloated...can I delete what is in /var/log without > damaging anything? Appreciate any thoughts or advice. /var/log/lastlog is a 'sparse' dbm file that appears to be over a terrabyte in size as a side effect of the user id number chosen for nfsnobody on x86_64 boxes. Disk space isn't really allocated for sparse files but programs that don't understand the sparse concept (most of them...) go though the motions of reading the whole thing - and if they copy it, they do use the space. Other than being a good way to test how your backup scheme handles (or fails to handle) sparse files, this setup seems like a really bad idea, especially given that gdbm has been around for ages and does the same thing without needing sparse files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
