According to Ethan Benson:
> /me boggles, i have not heard of this one before, this is wacky!
> where can i find more info on this, and what uses/advantages it has?
Try http://google.com/ and enter "unix sparse files"
That returns e.g. http://www.nic.com/~cheah/hole.html
Mike.
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On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:21:50PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Yes. Try this:
>
> % dd if=/dev/null of=bigfile bs=1k seek=1024
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> % ls -l bigfile
> -rw-r--r--1 miquels staff 1048576 May 17 23:19 bigfile
> % du bigfile
> 0 bigfile
>
> T
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>>
>> montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Has anyone else encountered this situation?
>>
>> Yes, almost everyone.
>
>I wonder how come no one in #linux knew about it? Too bad no one in
>#debia
Holy Canarsie, Miquel!
You are absolutely right, 'du /var/log/lastlog' does show the file to be
miniscule. Whew!
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Has anyone else encountered this situation?
>
> Yes, almost everyone.
>
I wonder how come no one in #linux
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone else encountered this situation?
Yes, almost everyone.
>I was looking at my /var/log directory and this popped out at me
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 18692964 May 17 04:19 lastlog
>
>I'm still tweaking a recen
Hi,
Has anyone else encountered this situation?
I was looking at my /var/log directory and this popped out at me
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 18692964 May 17 04:19 lastlog
I'm still tweaking a recent upgrade from Slink to Potato, so I guess I
do a lot of su - logins, but still isn't that
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