Re: file size different from ls to du

From: Harti Brandt (brandt_at_fokus.fraunhofer.de)
Date: 07/29/03

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To: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@www.get-linux.org>

    On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:

    JO>Usually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something hard
    JO>to do at the shell.

    When I need a file for TCP performance tests I usually do

    dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1k count=1 seek=99999

    harti 

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