Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Is there a "make hole" (truncate in middle) syscall? | Date | Fri, 05 Dec 2003 23:42:34 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> I was thinking of making a toy that would run periodically against a > seldom-changed filesystem, find runs of zeroes of a certain minimum > size, and turn 'em into holes. The fragmentation might not be worth > it, though...
"cp" does that already. Hunt for sparse files, copy them and move the new file to the old location. There used to be an installer (Slackware, I think) back in very old days which did this to every binary after untarring...
Olaf
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