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Re: How to create an image file system that grows



Kevin Ross:
> 
> kevin@htpc:~$ dd bs=1 count=1 if=/dev/zero of=sparse seek=5GB
-- snip
> kevin@htpc:~$ /sbin/mke2fs sparse
-- snip
> The filesystem has 4.4 GB available to it, but it's currently only taking up
> 77 MB of disk space.

Neat! Thanks for sharing that.

J.
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