[PLUG] Creating Large Files for Loopback

Ethan Bean ethabean at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 24 04:59:51 UTC 2002


I'm not on the list, so could you CC
ethabean at yahoo.com on replies?

Does anyone know of a util or something to create a
large file without all the overhead of "dd
if=/dev/zero of=..." It's for a loopback device, is
there some way to make it auto-extend or something
like that? 

Thanks!
Ethan


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