lastlog devours universe

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:32:17PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:28:47PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
 >  > ls -l /var/log/lastlog
 >  > -r--------  1 root root 1254130450140 Jun  7 14:44 /var/log/lastlog
 >  > 
 >  > du /var/log/lastlog
 >  > 60      /var/log/lastlog
 >  > 
 >  > What does this mean?
 > 
 > That you're running on a 64-bit OS that supports sparse files.
 > (hint: du -h /var/log/lastlog)

Duh, my eyes somehow completely missed your second sentence.
Apologies.

In short: the empty parts of the file dont take up any diskspace.

		Dave