On Thursday 27 November 2008 07:51:38 Ivan Shmakov wrote: > >> $ dd if=/dev/null of=live-rw bs=1G seek=1 # for a 1G image file > >> $ ls -gGl live-rw > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 1073741824 ... live-rw > > > > This is bogus too as it creates a file big as all free space in the > > target devive..., > > The size of the file would be 1 GiB exactly, if the target > filesystem has at least a few spare MiBs. > > Did you note that I've changed /dev/zero to /dev/null?
....no, I'm sorry :-D -- ESC:wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
