fre, 17 06 2005 kl. 12:30 +0200, skrev martin f krafft: > Nope. Someone raised the point of a file with all zeroes being > possibly sparse, but I don't think that's the case if I wrote it > with > > dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=8M count=1 > > right? Right. Files are only sparse if you seek to somewhere in the file and start your writing there. The "empty" space reads as \0's, but just writing \0's won't give you a sparse file. -- Salu2, Søren.
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