On 1/23/06, Gary Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running FC4 64-bit on a R3240US laptop.  The system is a dual boot
> with XP.  I am have problems running out of disk space.  df -h shows
> that I have 33GB assigned to /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 and that I
> am using 31GB.  I do not think I am using that much as I have very
> little on the system besides FC4.  When a trace through the installation

Do this as root to get an idea of where the disk is being used:
# cd /
# du -hs *

cd into the directory that is the largest and repeat if necessary.

> to find sources of disk usage I find a /var/log/lastlog is 1.2 TB
> (impossible).  Could this be my problem?  Anyone know how to fix this?

No, this is not a problem.  Try this:
# du -hs /var/log/lastlog

This is a sparse file, which means it is actually not 1.2 TB, as it
cannot be.  However, the last bit of data occurs at an offset of about
1.2 TB in the file.  There is a lot of space in between which is not
actually populated with data.  Some tools do not handle sparse files
well, for instance tar.  Be careful not to try to back this file up :
).

Jonathan

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