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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] e2image: truncate raw image file to correct size
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:31:42 -0500
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To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
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On 2/17/2012 5:04 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> We can easily fix that by doing this instead:
> 
> if (sparse > 1024*1024) { write_block(fd, 0, 1024*1024, 0, 0); 
> sparse -= 1024*1024; }

That occurred to me last night while I slept.  I still would like to try
to truncate instead of write the last zero though.  Patch coming up.


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