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Subject: Re: Advice for hacking on ufs/ffs
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"Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:53:31AM -0700, Shane Adams wrote:
> > I used dd to create 1G file.
> A faster way is:
>     touch filename
>     truncate -s 1g filename

no, this will result in a fragmented image, which will hurt run-time
performance.

DES
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