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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
