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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:54:44 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        Joshua Oreman <oremanj@www.get-linux.org>
Subject:   Re: sparse files from shell [Re: file size different from ls to du]
Message-ID:  <20030730055443.GA77278@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030730090934.L90518@woozle.rinet.ru>
References:  <200307291524.h6TFO3J06998@revolt.poohsticks.org> <20030729160048.GA4647@webserver> <20030730090934.L90518@woozle.rinet.ru>

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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:14:25AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:
>=20
> [snip]
>=20
> JO> Usually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something h=
ard
> JO> to do at the shell.
>=20
> dd is your friend.

See also truncate(1)

Kris

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