[PLUG] Huge lastlog

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Keroes <jkeroes at eli.net> writes:

Joshua> Why does /var/log/lastlog take up 18MB when there are only ~30 entries
Joshua> in last(1)'s output?

I belive it's a sparse file.  Check "du" on it, instead of looking
at the address of the last byte with "ls -l".

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