Jim Meyering wrote: > Or use a file on an xfs file system as the backing store. > Here's a 9MB file with apparent size of over 5 exabytes: > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=big bs=1M count=1 seek=5T > $ du -h --app big > 5.1E big > > Using file systems like ext4 and xfs is fine in parted's test > suite, as long as you're careful to diagnose "missing support" > failures as "skipped" (not failing) tests. > > The advantage of doing it this way, if it works, is that the test > doesn't have to be run as root.
I thought since we were talking about loopback devices that this would need root access anyway, but XFS is a worthy alternative too that I'd not thought of and should be workable on most distros. I guess whichever is easier for the test at hand really. Cheers, Bryn. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
