Re: allocating disk space the fast way

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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
>
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I know you already found an answer....but....

Make it sparse.

dd if=/dev/zero of=./my.image bs=1M seek=2048 count=1

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Thanks,

Eric
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