[Gllug] DD Ext3 Move

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:08:24AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> 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...

The offending user is normally  'nfsnobody' IIRC given an id of -1.

Dan.
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