[CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

[semihgokalp at gmail.com (Semih Gokalp)]

Thanks all for help.

Thanks again.



2008/10/24 Mogens Kjaer <mk@xxxxxx>:
> Semih Gokalp wrote:
>>
>> yes i did it before.
>>
>> du /var/log/message
>>
>> 28      /var/log/faillog
>>
>> but
>>
>> ls -al /var/log/
>>
>> -rw-------  1 root   root   137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog
>>
>> but why it is different ?
>
> It is a sparse file. It has holes in it.
> Only a few blocks are actually allocated.
>
> It is not an error.
>
> Mogens
>
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