Re: [RFC] fallocate utility

[Pádraig Brady]

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Pádraig Brady schrieb:
>> I don't see a problem in extending the meaning of the truncate command.
>> Now truncate isn't the best name for the command but that name
>> already existed in BSD and so I thought it best to align with that.
>> So what about also having an fallocate command in coreutils?
>> Well it would benefit from all the existing options of the truncate command,
>> I.E. would share most of the code, so I'm not convinced.
> 
> Why not make it, in the best Unix tradition, a single
> executable whose action depends on the name it is run as?

Hmm. Good idea.
There is precedent for that already in coreutils.

cheers,
Pádraig.