Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote:
> Perhaps you saved the file from within vi. That might "unsparse" the
> file.
Yes.. but perhaps I didn't. :)
> Read up on the --sparse option of cp ("man cp"). It looks like the
> following will work: (warning! I have not tried this!)
>
> cd /var/log
> mv lastlog lastlog-orig
> cp --sparse=always lastlog-orig lastlog
> du -h lastlog
> rm lastlog-orig
That worked perfectly.. wait a minute..
weren't you the guy asking for help in the first place? :)
Thanks a lot,
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