Re: How to generate a large file allocating space

Alex Bligh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext3.user
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--On 31 October 2010 19:46:09 +0100 Matija Nalis <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Sorry, I don't. debugfs(8) only appears to have read-only support for
> reading extents, and not for (re-)writing them, so I guess you'll have to
> find some function in libext2fs if it exists (or write your own if it
> doesn't) to use on unmounted fs.

Yes. I need to iterate through the extents. debugfs does that but I don't
know how to change the flag or (more relevantly) whether it is safe to do
so.

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Alex Bligh
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