lastlog is huge

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Hacksaw wrote:
> One wonders, then, why the basic utils, like cp and mv don't deal with it 
> better?

Cp deals with it.  Info page for mv says that mv is using same code as 
"cp -a" when moving files from one file system to another.  When moving 
files within single file system, the file actually stays where it was on 
the disk.  Only pointer from directory structure is moved from one place 
to another (try it, if "a" is 10GB file, than "mv a b" will be almost 
instant).

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