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| From | David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Creation of empty files [was: Useful use of dd] |
| Date | 2021-07-02 23:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <Cwz3b-135-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 7/2/21 11:51 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02 2021 at 01:26:23 PM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote: >> For this new subject I will add another use: quickly create empty file >> of specific size, for example 5 * 1024 bytes: >> >> $ dd of=empty obs=1024 seek=5 count=0 2021-07-02 14:20:47 dpchrist@dipsy ~/sandbox/dd $ dd of=dd-sparse bs=1M seek=5 count=0 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes copied, 6.9482e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s 2021-07-02 14:21:16 dpchrist@dipsy ~/sandbox/dd $ ll dd-sparse -rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 5242880 2021-07-02 14:21:16 dd-sparse 2021-07-02 14:21:40 dpchrist@dipsy ~/sandbox/dd $ du --bytes dd-sparse 5242880 dd-sparse > There's > > $ truncate --size 5k testfile > > for this purpose. 2021-07-02 14:23:34 dpchrist@dipsy ~/sandbox/dd $ time truncate --size 5M truncate-sparse real 0m0.002s user 0m0.002s sys 0m0.001s 2021-07-02 14:24:25 dpchrist@dipsy ~/sandbox/dd $ ll truncate-sparse -rw-r--r-- 1 dpchrist dpchrist 5242880 2021-07-02 14:24:25 truncate-sparse 2021-07-02 14:24:30 dpchrist@dipsy ~/sandbox/dd $ du --bytes truncate-sparse 5242880 truncate-sparse I expected sparse files, but du(1) does not indicate such (?). Comments? David
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