On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 12:52:53PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > 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.
Nice.
And then, there's "oflag=sync". I hate it when the system says
"Done!" when writing to an USB stick, then I say "sync", and only
then the writing starts. For an unknown amount of time. Combine
with "status=progress" to taste :)
> For testing zisofs i have this in a script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # 100gb with big holes
> for i in {1..100}
> do
> echo $i | dd of=100gb bs=1 seek="$i"G 2>/dev/null
> done
>
> The resulting file "100gb" occupies 404 KB in an ext4 filesystem.
> (It shall not contain entirely zeros. So it is not the smallest possible
> 100 GiB file.)
nice, thanks.
Cheers
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