Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:34:31 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" <sean-freebsd@farley.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange spaces in ls -kls output, and dd(1) trouble Message-ID: <20060925152701.Q18169@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <200609211802.k8LI2PoI039105@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200609211802.k8LI2PoI039105@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: <snip> > Oh by the way, "dd conv=sparse" doesn't seem to work for > me; it doesn't create a sparse file: > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1000 conv=sparse > 1000+0 records in > 1000+0 records out > 512000 bytes transferred in 0.070895 secs (7221952 bytes/sec) > $ ls -kls test > 528 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nfswheel 512000 Sep 21 19:58 test It is a "feature" of dd that does not create sparse files if given a block size. Sean -- sean-freebsd@farley.org
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