Re: File System conversion -- ideas

Stewart Smith (stewart@linux.org.au)
Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:56:23 +1000


On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:05:00PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> You have a 6 GB file. You lose. :-)

funny how people can get their head around partially downloaded files, but not around partial files on a disk.

copy 5GB first, resize, then the next gig. easy. (well, relatively).

Sure, you could crash and end up with 2 halves - which a 'cat' would fix!

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Stewart Smith
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