On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... In contrast, an > initially-zeroed imagefile would be sparse, with most blocks not > actually allocated, so I'd need the freespace reserve to make > imagefile block allocation reasonably fast & vaguely-contiguous-on-disk > as the encrypted filesystem is used.
wrong. if you write just one sector at the end, yes, you'll create a sparse file. "dd if=/dev/zero of=image.bin bs=64k" will actually write to each and every one of those sectors. CK -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
