Hans Müller wrote:
Hello is the an faster way then use dd to create an big file?? The file must only exits. The content of the created one don't care. I thing there must be an way only to reserve space on the file system.
To reserve space on the filesystem it is necessary to write to each block of the file. To do otherwise (e.g.: create a 1GB file with "dd if=/dev/zero of=some.file bs=1k seek=1048575 count=1") makes a sparse file which actually uses only a few blocks in the filesystem until you write to other locations in the file. Using 'dd' is as fast a way as any to write the entire file. -- Bob Nichols Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
