I don't think any program can allocate space on your HDD without attaching it to a file.
Torrent clients can either allocate space for a file (thus, the file will be mapped to that space, even if its unused before data arrives), or they can increase the file's size to accomodate new data when needed. If you tell your client to pre-allocate the space needed, it will create e.g. a 500mb file even if it doesn't have the data for it. On 8/24/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 24 August 2007 15:48, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > > 1 - I created an identical sized partition (/dev/sd13 = 20 Gb) and did > > > dd. > > > > Why did you use dd? > > > > What you needed to do is create the new partition, create the new > > filesystem, mount it, and then use cp -a. This way you don't copy > > unused blocks, unfragment the filesystem, can set parameters (block > > size, journal size, number of inodes, etc.) to fit the new size. > > Actually, there was a reason. That particular partition has some partially > downloaded torrents. When rtorrent creates directories and files, it > apparently only allocates space, but doesn't actually "use" any disc space > until the relevant chunk is downloaded. So, at some point, a file may > "seem" > to be 500 Mb but only actually take up 200 Mb on the disc (because only > 40% > has been downloaded). In my experience, using cp in a case like this woud > create an actual 500 Mb file. > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- | | Alex Alexander | Wired | \
