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[ale] ZFS on Linux
- Subject: [ale] ZFS on Linux
- From: mbt at naunetcorp.com (Michael B. Trausch)
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:34:34 -0400
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On 04/01/2013 09:18 AM, Chris Ricker wrote:
> What you can still do, however, is truncate an existing file. So find a
> big file,
>
> # cat /dev/null > /path/to/big/sacrificial/file
>
> and repeat until you've freed up enough space to work more
> conventionally. It gets more "entertaining" if snapshots are involved,
> of course...
Would:
$ truncate -s 0 /path/to/big/sacrificial/file
... not work for the same reason as an rm wouldn't in that case?
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