Re: [RFC] fallocate utility

[Karel Zak]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:27:57PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I was thinking the new fallocate util would have the
> same options as the existing truncate util.
> I.E. -n or -o would not be needed or supportable in all situations.
> If you think that users would need those, then I suggest
> adding the linux specific fallocate util to util-linux-ng,
> and we'll add the more generic `truncate --allocate`
> (or separate command) to coreutils.

 So.. what is our final conclusion? The Linux specific fallocate(1) in
 util-linux-ng, right? Everyone agrees?

    Karel

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