On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Vijay Kumar B. <[email protected]> wrote: > > dd can also be used to achieve a similar effect. > > $ dd if=/dev/null of=file seek=10M bs=1 >
Yes it does. Thanks. Can you explain this? -rw-r--r-- 1 girish wheel 10485760 Nov 13 08:04 f $ du -h f 32.0K f I suppose du cannot see the space taken by the file on disk. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
