On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Spake Eben King on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 11:44AM -0400:
>> 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.
>
> Interesting, that isn't needed here.
> What does dd --version report?
> % dd --version
> dd (coreutils) 5.97
eben@pc:~$ dd --version
dd (coreutils) 5.96
I guess that's the 0.01 .
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