Re: [SLUG] sparse file

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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:44:58AM -0400, Eben King wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>
>> Spake Eben King on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 02:05AM -0400:
>>> How would I create a sparse (no allocated storage) file? Reason: I've
>>
>> dd count=0 bs=1M seek=20 of=pants
>
> Thanks. I modified it a bit:
>
> eben@pc:~$ dd count=0 bs=1M seek=100 if=/dev/zero of=testfile
>
> Dunno what it does with the infile, but if it's not there, dd hangs.
>

dd copies from here to there. Without an input, it gets testy. The
/dev/zero generates zeroes for your file contents.

Paul

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