Does a holefile take up disk space?
- Thread starter gdf
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Are you speaking of File Holes?
Yeah! By using system call : truncate(fd,length).
I do not know how to check how much space actually allocated to the File Hole!
I am learning from this thread, as well. It looks like it has to do with block size
Some references --
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/436314/how-to-get-the-physical-size-of-a-file-in-linux
https://www.howtouselinux.com/post/check-file-size-in-linux
https://www.howtogeek.com/450366/how-to-get-the-size-of-a-file-or-directory-in-linux/
Maybe give us a synopsis hen you figure it out, as a suggestion!
Some references --
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/436314/how-to-get-the-physical-size-of-a-file-in-linux
https://www.howtouselinux.com/post/check-file-size-in-linux
https://www.howtogeek.com/450366/how-to-get-the-size-of-a-file-or-directory-in-linux/
Maybe give us a synopsis hen you figure it out, as a suggestion!
