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On Fri, May 11, 2012 21:36, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 05/11/2012 08:45 PM, Mark wrote:
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I'm using kernel 3.0.0-19-generic #32-Ubuntu here. But probably more
relevant, the partition I tested on was ~1.7TB ext4 on an external
On 05/11/2012 06:40 PM, Mark wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, May 11, 2012 16:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 05/11/2012 04:03 PM, Mark wrote:
Here's a patch for cp which adds a new --preallocate option. When
specified, cp allocates disk space for the destination file before
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To-do list:
- Add
On Fri, May 11, 2012 20:19, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 05/11/2012 06:40 PM, Mark wrote:
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An interesting aside: I tried using cp to pre-allocate space for a very
large file on an ext4 partition, much larger than the amount of free
space. IMHO it would be best for the filesystem to fail
On 05/11/2012 08:45 PM, Mark wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2012 20:19, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 05/11/2012 06:40 PM, Mark wrote:
...
An interesting aside: I tried using cp to pre-allocate space for a very
large file on an ext4 partition, much larger than the amount of free
space. IMHO it would be
