I need to create an 8 GB sized sparse file which will do an actual
block allocation. In other words, I want to allocate the blocks in
the directory structure, but not fill them with zeroes until they are
actually used. Since this will be implemented in a closed appliance
I'm not concerned about security and can execute any command as root.
I have tried the dd seek command. And while it creates a sparse file,
it doesn't reserve the blocks.
Thank you for your help.
Steve
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