On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 08:37:57PM -0300, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote:
> Ronald W. Heiby wrote:
> > If, when you copy a sparse file, you do not take precautions to have
> > the copy also be sparse, the copy gets "filled in" and has a bunch of
> > bytes of 0x00 actually allocated on disk. Looks like that happened
> > here.
> >
> > Ron.
>
> Well, I'm quite sure I never copied it anywhere.. one time I vi'd it and it took
> forever for
> vi to load it, with a lot of disk scratching.. bet that was it.. Can you tell me how
> to fix this?
>
Perhaps you saved the file from within vi. That might "unsparse" the
file.
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
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