Re: sparse image

2010-06-30 Thread Malcolm Kay
t; [r...@ostracod /scratch/media]# df -h | grep foo > > /dev/md0p1 989M4.0K910M 0% > > /mnt/foo [r...@ostracod /scratch/media]# > > > > Hope this is helpful. > > Vince > > Thanks Vince this was very helpful. > I was able to creat

Re: sparse image

2010-06-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 30/06/2010 06:19, Aiza wrote: > Thanks Vince this was very helpful. > I was able to create a sparse image jail, but when I used cpio to > duplicate the sparse file to other jails I lost the sparseness of the > file. Is there a way to copy a sparse file and keep it intact? > I ha

Re: sparse image

2010-06-29 Thread Aiza
helpful. Vince Thanks Vince this was very helpful. I was able to create a sparse image jail, but when I used cpio to duplicate the sparse file to other jails I lost the sparseness of the file. Is there a way to copy a sparse file and keep it intact

Re: sparse image

2010-06-23 Thread Pieter de Goeje
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 c

Re: sparse image

2010-06-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/06/2010 11:26:43, Aiza wrote: > Is there an equivalent of the MAC sparseimage on FreeBSD? A filesystem image that only takes up as much space as the total of all the files within it? Not exactly. There are many archiving formats -- dump, tar,

Re: sparse image

2010-06-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
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

sparse image

2010-06-23 Thread Aiza
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