6 Nov
2005
6 Nov
'05
9:59 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 at 9:48pm, Morten wrote
[root@machine log]# cd /var/log/ [root@machine log]# ls -la|grep last -r-------- 1 root root 1254130450140 Nov 6 21:44 lastlog [root@machine log]# du -hs lastlog 52K lastlog
What's up with the output of ls? This is x86_64.
nfsnobody has a UID of -1 (or something like that), casuing lastlog (which incorporates UIDs) to appear that enormous. Note that it's a sparse file, so it actually takes up very little space on disk. Run 'du' on it to see how much actual disk space it occupies.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University