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 you do :
>   dd if=/dev/zero of=big-null-file
>then you will create a file called big-null-file which will grow

aaah,

so you guys did not understand me here.

I recommended to write to the disks or SAN (not NAS) block device file (or raw 
device) or partition device file (like i.e. /dev/sda ) - NOT a file onto a file 
system!


hth
cheers,


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