On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
> 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.
Of which there are none, but I guess else it wants its "" + EOF from stdin
if I don't give it that.
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