Re: sparse files from shell [Re: file size different from ls to du]

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From
Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Date
29 Jul 2003 22:54:45
Subject
Re: sparse files from shell [Re: file size different from ls to du]
Message-ID
20030730055443.GA77278@rot13.obsecurity.org

In reply to
Dmitry Morozovsky
References to
Drew Eckhardt, Joshua Oreman, Dmitry Morozovsky

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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:
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> [snip]
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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.
 
See also truncate(1)
 
Kris
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