Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:08:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@www.get-linux.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file size different from ls to du Message-ID: <20030729180633.U32605@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <20030729160048.GA4647@webserver> References: <200307291524.h6TFO3J06998@revolt.poohsticks.org> <20030729160048.GA4647@webserver>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: JO>Usually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something hard JO>to do at the shell. When I need a file for TCP performance tests I usually do dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1k count=1 seek=99999 harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org
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