What's /var/log/lastlog for?

Lars Gullik Bjønnes larsbj at gullik.net
Wed Jun 8 17:50:10 UTC 2005


Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:

| It's not as big as you think -- it's a "sparse" file, in which null data
| doesn't actually take up disk space. Try "du -h /var/log/lastlog" to see the
| amount of disk space it's actually taking -- probably only a few K.

Mine was 1.2TB (read: 2KB)

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	Lgb




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