Miguel Bazdresch wrote:

I'm going to display my ignorance here, but how is a long ID related to
having a 1.2TB lastlog?


lastlog is a sparse file. This means that it doesn't take up the space on disk that ls says it does (use ls -s). Seems tar creates a dense file from the sparse file.....

R.

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