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 > > - > 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 I know you already found an answer....but.... Make it sparse. dd if=/dev/zero of=./my.image bs=1M seek=2048 count=1 -- Thanks, Eric - 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
