[ale] lastlog

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Dec 19 15:21:32 EST 2005


My /var/log/lastlog shows a file size of 1.2T.

It would be kind of cool if that were possible. But I don't _have_ even
1T of drive space on the machine. 

So a digging around of man pages shows lastlog as _always_ having a
bogus large file size. ls -s shows it as 60(B) while ls -h shows 1.2T

Does ext(3) have issues with sparse files (which is what lastlog is)?
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