On Wednesday 23 June 2010 12:54:48 Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 23/06/2010 11:26, Aiza wrote: > > Is there an equivalent of the MAC sparseimage on FreeBSD? > > If you mean you would like to make a sparse file and attach it using > mdconfg then > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/outfile bs=1M seek=1024 count=0 > This will give you a sparse file that reports a gig in size, but only > uses whats actually in use.
Note that "truncate -s 1G file" will do the same with IMHO easier syntax. - Pieter _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
