Package: util-linux
Version: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.10.04.2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/fallocate
/usr/bin/fallocate returns zero when invoked on an ext3 disk. The
underying system call fallocate() is correct.
$ strace fallocate -l 1m JUNK2
execve("/usr/bin/fallocate", ["fallocate", "-l", "5m", "JUNK2"], [/* 52 vars
*/]) = 0
...
open("JUNK2", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 3
fallocate(3, 0, 0, 5242880) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not
supported)
close(3) = 0
exit_group(0) = ?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers lucid-updates
APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, 'lucid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-39-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.5 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1 Manage installed documentation in
ii libblkid1 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.10.04.2 block device id library
ii libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2ubuntu3 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libselinux1 2.0.89-4 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libslang2 2.2.2-2ubuntu1 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii libuuid1 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.10.04.2 Universally Unique ID library
ii lsb-base 4.0-0ubuntu8 Linux Standard Base 4.0 init scrip
ii tzdata 2012b-0ubuntu0.10.04 time zone and daylight-saving time
ii upstart [upstar 0.6.5-8 event-based init daemon
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1 compression library - runtime
util-linux recommends no packages.
Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
ii dosfstools 3.0.7-1 utilities for making and checking
ii kbd 1.15-1ubuntu3 Linux console font and keytable ut
pn util-linux-locales <none> (no description available)
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