From: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l 2 myfile takes forever
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:39:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALXu0UcHQVOHsgE5QjOj7_LoiiXvOa4RveYP-oZ32pkGd6GSfQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6134ced-53f6-46bb-9448-7b2f7efc636b@SystematicSW.ab.ca>
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 09:33, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On 2024-01-28 23:44, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> > rm -f myfile
> > touch myfile
> > /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5
>
> It takes much longer without Cygwin 3.5!
>
> Your fallocate(1) option -l has no length numeric argument and no -o offset
> numeric argument to specify the start of the range.
Apologies, I typed this from a screenshot, and made a mistake.
The line should be:
/usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l 2 myfile
like in the Subject
Offset is 0 i this case, because no -o was given
Ced
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-29 6:44 Cedric Blancher
2024-01-29 7:56 ` Mark Geisert
2024-01-29 9:45 ` Mark Geisert
2024-03-05 8:46 ` Cedric Blancher
2024-03-05 10:43 ` Mark Geisert
2024-03-08 9:43 ` Mark Geisert
2024-03-05 11:04 ` Mark Geisert
2024-01-29 8:32 ` Brian Inglis
2024-01-29 10:39 ` Cedric Blancher [this message]
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