[Gllug] DD Ext3 Move

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Wed Mar 8 00:08:24 UTC 2006


Nix writes:

>On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Christian Smith murmured woefully:
>> But for most people, multi TB sparse files are not a real concern.
>
>Er, on a system with 32-bit uids, and a single user with id -1 or -2,
>you might well end up with /var/log/lastlog and the quota files being
>extremely vast. :/

Ahhh... that would explain why my /var/log/lastlog is around 1.2TB
at the moment. Or at least, it might do. I'm not sure why I'd have
a user with a negative id...

Tet
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