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/ linux-sparse-files-primer.txt
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September 11, 2017 19:39
A quick linux sparse file primer
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| # Create a 10-Meg file | |
| $ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1024 count=10240 | |
| 10240+0 records in | |
| 10240+0 records out | |
| 10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.0142283 s, 737 MB/s | |
| # Check with ls = 10M | |
| $ ls -la foo | |
| -rw-rw-r-- 1 mina mina 10485760 Sep 11 15:32 foo |