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pre-allocation fud
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 28, 2006 01:51 AMUse a sparse file to save disk space.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/location/of/file bs=4k sd if=/dev/zero of=/location/of/file bs=4k seek=2560 count=0
Simple as that. Also I'd recommend dm-crypt over loop-aes or cryptoloop, those are outdated.
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