sparse files from shell [Re: file size different from ls to du]

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:14:25AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> JO> Usually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something hard
> JO> to do at the shell.
> 
> dd is your friend.

See also truncate(1)

Kris
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