09-05-2008
I think it may be unnecessary to remove the nulls. I presume you are rotating the logs to save space? You may find that the file has now become a 'sparse' file. If you run a du -k logfile does the size reported match the same size as in ls -l logfile? If the du size is much smaller then it is a sparse file and not using much space, so you may as well leave it as it is.
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
cachefswssize
cachefswssize(1M) System Administration Commands cachefswssize(1M)
NAME
cachefswssize - determine working set size for cachefs
SYNOPSIS
cachefswssize logfile
DESCRIPTION
The cachefswssize command displays the workspace size determined from logfile. This includes the amount of cache space needed for each
filesystem that was mounted under the cache, as well as a total.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of cachefswssize when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2 **31
bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample output of cachefswssize.
example% cachefswssize /var/tmp/samlog
/home/sam
end size: 10688k
high water size: 10704k
/foo
end size: 128k
high water size: 128k
/usr/dist
end size: 1472k
high water size: 1472k
total for cache
initial size: 110960k
end size: 12288k
high water size: 12304k
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 success
non-zero an error has occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
cachefslog(1M), cachefsstat(1M), cfsadmin(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)
DIAGNOSTICS
problems were encountered writing log file
There were problems encountered when the kernel was writing the logfile. The most common problem is running out of disk space.
invalid log file
The logfile is not a valid logfile or was created with a newer version of Solaris than the one where cachefswssize is running.
SunOS 5.10 16 Sep 1996 cachefswssize(1M)