On 16 June 2012 13:46, Garrett Cooper yaneg...@gmail.com wrote:
What if you cp it?
Our version of cp doesn't support sparsing of files, but Linux's
does: http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_cp.htm
Is this intentional that we don't support sparse files or just no one
wrote the
On Thursday 14 June 2012 06:48:14 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to punch
holes?
I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much like
brk() works for memory.
BAD. suppose i keep windoze VM image on filesystem which
i could write simple program to find out what blocks are unused and
then...do nothing.
Actually you can. Use dd if=infile of=outfile conv=sparse to convert a file to a
sparse file. This obviously only works on filesystems supporting sparse files,
such as UFS.
of course i can by copying. not
On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
wrote:
file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to punch
holes?
I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much like
brk() works for memory.
BAD. suppose i keep windoze VM image on
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
wrote:
file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to punch
holes?
I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much
On Jun 16, 2012 8:37 PM, Xin LI delp...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
wrote:
file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to punch
holes?
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:04:26 +0100
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 16, 2012 8:37 PM, Xin LI delp...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:04:26 +0100
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 16, 2012 8:37 PM, Xin LI delp...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 14, 2012 5:49
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On 05/26/12 08:06, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
is it possible. suppose i have 1GB file with my data and 100 1
megabyte parts of it is no longer needed. i could reorganize that
file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to punch
holes?
file to take 900MB or... can i call some system function to punch
holes?
I think you can only truncate the file at this time, pretty much like
brk() works for memory.
BAD. suppose i keep windoze VM image on filesystem which takes 10GB but
uses 5GB.
i could write simple program to find out
is it possible. suppose i have 1GB file with my data and 100 1 megabyte
parts of it is no longer needed. i could reorganize that file to take
900MB or... can i call some system function to punch holes?
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