On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 at 9:48pm, Morten wrote > [root at machine log]# cd /var/log/ > [root at machine log]# ls -la|grep last > -r-------- 1 root root 1254130450140 Nov 6 21:44 lastlog > [root at 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. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University