From: Mensch <bausparkasse@gmx.de>
To: linux-newbie list <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: allocating disk space the fast way
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:43:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154799802.1885.9.camel@Marvin> (raw)
hello list.
i want to allocate some space for a harddisk image file.
for now, i do it like
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=blub.img bs=1M count=2000
which takes some time. is there a faster way to create a huge file? it
don't have to be zeroed.
i've seen that e.g. azureus allocates filesize in no time. how does this
work?
thanks in advance,
josef gosch
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2006-08-05 17:43 Mensch [this message]
2006-08-05 18:06 ` allocating disk space the fast way Mensch
2006-10-14 17:35 ` Eric Bambach
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