Fed Core 3 - locate command

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 13:16 -0800, linux at cheapbits.net wrote:
> First was the /etc/log/last file said it was 1T bytes long.
> Second was the locate command would initially work ( locate -u ) but somewhere
> along the line, a subsequent locate -u would fail. Locate string was ok. The
> command would first do a segmentation fault then the next locate -u would hang.

That will be a "sparse" file - one with lots of empty, unallocated space in it. "du /etc/log/last" should tell you how much space it's taking up on disk.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>