Re: [Xen-users] Clean deleted space in linux diks?

["Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet)" <nd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:

>If the disk is large, it may be a bit of a problem making a single
>large file.
This means it is impossible to write by a device file onto that SAN to fill it?

The OP hasn't said which specific OS (32 vs 64 bit), or
>filesystem, so I don't know what the max file size is (I vaguely
>recall a 4G limit under some OS/filesystem combinations). He may have
>to do something like :
>
>a=0 ; while [ $a -lt X ]
>do
>   dd if=/dev/zero of=null-file-$a bs=1024k count=1024
>done
>rm null-file*

hmmm, just to understand: this is writing onto a file system and not to a 
device directly, or not?

- --
Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT&Internet
http://www.syndicat.com
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