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Thursday, August 21, 2003, 9:39:30 PM, Herculano wrote:
>    OK.. I've seen this subject on lots of threads so I'll ask.. can you
> explain this?   

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]$ du -h /var/log/lastlog
> 19M     /var/log/lastlog

If, when you copy a sparse file, you do not take precautions to have
the copy also be sparse, the copy gets "filled in" and has a bunch of
bytes of 0x00 actually allocated on disk. Looks like that happened
here.

Ron.

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