On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:
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JO> Usually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something hard
JO> to do at the shell.
dd is your friend.
These commands make sparse file of some ks physical and 1g logical:
VNFILE=/tmp/sparsefile
VNSZ=$((1024*1024))
dd if=/dev/zero of=${VNFILE} bs=1k count=1 seek=$((${VNSZ} - 1))
Sincerely,
D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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