Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog
miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
> Probably the struct lastlog is a bit bigger, but remember these files
> are mostly empty. The file is probably not taking 18 MB on disk --
> try a "du lastlog" to see how many bytes it is really taking.
You can also use the "-s" option to ls, which can be more convenient.
And lastlog does seem pretty sparse:
% ls -ls lastlog messages
6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292292 Feb 13 16:55 lastlog
201 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 204740 Feb 13 17:33 messages
That's 6K versus 201K, when the first file should be half as big again.
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