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> Is there any easy way to see how full the device is (no filesystem on there)?
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To answer my own post (this list seems quiet these days).
Came up with the following Perl one liner to read 512 bytes in at time from the loop device, if they're all hex 0 then read in the next 512, and so on, printing a running total of MB processed thus far. Stop when we run into a non-zeroed-out block on the loop device:
# perl -e 'open D, "<", "/dev/loop5"; while ($n=sysread(D,$x,512)){if ($x =~ /(\x00){512}/) { $o+=$n; print "\015", int($o/1024/1024), " MB" } else { exit} }'
Some Perl guru might well have a less gauche way to skip through the device looking for a non-zero block.
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