* 2021-07-02 12:52:53+0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> For this new subject I will add another use: quickly create empty file
>> of specific size, for example 5 * 1024 bytes:
>> $ dd of=empty obs=1024 seek=5 count=0
>
> Not to forget creation of sparse files with few disk consumption.
My example above already does that.
$ dd of=empty obs=100G seek=1 count=0
$ ls -gGlhs empty
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 100G 2021-07-02 14:21:18 empty
Zero blocks actually allocated, so far.
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