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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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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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