Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: > Perhaps you saved the file from within vi. That might "unsparse" the > file.
Yes.. but perhaps I didn't. :) > Read up on the --sparse option of cp ("man cp"). It looks like the > following will work: (warning! I have not tried this!) > > cd /var/log > mv lastlog lastlog-orig > cp --sparse=always lastlog-orig lastlog > du -h lastlog > rm lastlog-orig That worked perfectly.. wait a minute.. weren't you the guy asking for help in the first place? :) Thanks a lot, -- Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list