Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

From: Rodolfo J. Paiz (rpaiz_at_simpaticus.com)
Date: 08/25/03

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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:28:18 -0600

    At 8/24/2003 23:17 -0300, you wrote:
    >Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
    >
    > > I have no idea how to even start looking for this one
    >
    > Well, you could try unsparsing a file.. it's a blind shot, it makes no
    >sense, but it's worth a try (on the smallest huge file).
    >
    >cp --sparse=always big.wav test.wav

    That's actually how I ended up on this thread... no one was paying me any
    attention on my other attempts to get help on this issue, and sparse files
    sounded like a possible explanation so I went through the thread and made
    attempts to sparse or unsparse with both cp and rsync.

    No dice... I still get 1.2GB worth of file, yet the darn thing plays
    properly in a media player and displays correctly in certain incantations
    of ls.

    Is there someone out there with some coding expertise, who can maybe
    explain why "ls -l" and "ls -sh" give different results? Like this:

    ls -l:
    -rwxr--r-- 1 rpaiz rpaiz 1177207676 Aug 3 18:09 Kansas ~ Best of
    Kansas ~ 04 ~ Dust in the Wind ~ 890B500A.wav
    ls -sh:
      35M Kansas ~ Best of Kansas ~ 04 ~ Dust in the Wind ~ 890B500A.wav

    Worse yet, the file that I gzipped and then gunzipped is now really and
    truly taking up 1.2GB:

    ls -l:
    -rwxr--r-- 1 rpaiz rpaiz 1181163340 Aug 3 18:09 Kansas ~ Best of
    Kansas ~ 01 ~ Carry on Wayward Son ~ 890B500A.wav
    ls -sh:
    1.2G Kansas ~ Best of Kansas ~ 01 ~ Carry on Wayward Son ~ 890B500A.wav

    Any listing of it now shows 1.2GB, and total space used in the directory
    "du -ms" as well as disk free space "df -m" reflect the increase. It still
    plays fine in my media player, though!

    Arrrgh!!! 

    -- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@simpaticus.com
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