Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 01:04:53 -0600 (CST) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: any interest? Message-ID: <199504020704.BAA24888@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199504020629.WAA24567@violet.berkeley.edu> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 1, 95 10:29:57 pm
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> The usual way under SunOS is 'mkfile 4m /some/file'. This way > no disk blocks are allocated until they are actually needed. I would worry about running out of disk space and then having swap failing. Since you *need* to keep that space unused, you might as well preallocate it.
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