[CentOS] Interesting faillog files.
Mogens Kjaer
mk at crc.dk
Fri Oct 24 15:14:24 UTC 2008
Semih Gokalp wrote:
> yes i did it before.
>
> du /var/log/message
>
> 28 /var/log/faillog
>
> but
>
> ls -al /var/log/
>
> -rw------- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog
>
> but why it is different ?
It is a sparse file. It has holes in it.
Only a few blocks are actually allocated.
It is not an error.
Mogens
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