lastlog is huge

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 01.03.2005 schrieb david smethurst um 11:47:

> ive been trying to ghost over my drives from 160gb to a  36gb and
> couldnt figure out why it keep saying that the destination drive was too
> small.
> then i found this:
> in /var/log/lastlog is 1168.0GB

> david

Some day ago a reply by Arjan van de Ven about the same observation on
an RHEL4 host:

"if this is a 64 bit machine... the nfs nobody user has UID of -1...
which is a lot on 64 bit"

Alexander


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