From: Eric Bambach <eric@cisu.net>
To: Mensch <bausparkasse@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-newbie list <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: allocating disk space the fast way
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:35:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610141235.08715.eric@cisu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154799802.1885.9.camel@Marvin>
On Saturday 05 August 2006 12:43, Mensch wrote:
> 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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I know you already found an answer....but....
Make it sparse.
dd if=/dev/zero of=./my.image bs=1M seek=2048 count=1
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Thanks,
Eric
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2006-08-05 17:43 allocating disk space the fast way Mensch
2006-08-05 18:06 ` Mensch
2006-10-14 17:35 ` Eric Bambach [this message]
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