On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:21:50PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: <snip> > Yes. Try this: > > % dd if=/dev/null of=bigfile bs=1k seek=1024 > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > % ls -l bigfile > -rw-r--r-- 1 miquels staff 1048576 May 17 23:19 bigfile > % du bigfile > 0 bigfile > > The file contains zero bytes, yet it looks like it's 1MB. > Welcome to Unix ;) /me boggles, i have not heard of this one before, this is wacky! where can i find more info on this, and what uses/advantages it has? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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