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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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:14:25AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: > > [snip] > > JO> Usually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something hard > JO> to do at the shell. > > dd is your friend. See also truncate(1) Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/J12jWry0BWjoQKURAraFAJ0ZWSZvBmOuexbuzxUDogDMJjxc1ACdFT6z ASPFgIZW2dwAj2KevagG4Sk= =dWyx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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