On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 09:33, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 2024-01-28 23:44, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > rm -f myfile > > touch myfile > > /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5 > > It takes much longer without Cygwin 3.5! > > Your fallocate(1) option -l has no length numeric argument and no -o offset > numeric argument to specify the start of the range.
Apologies, I typed this from a screenshot, and made a mistake. The line should be: /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l 2 myfile like in the Subject Offset is 0 i this case, because no -o was given Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@gmail.com> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
