| author | Rodrigo Campos
<rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar> 2014-02-20 18:37:32 UTC |
| committer | Rodrigo Campos
<rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar> 2014-02-21 00:33:59 UTC |
| parent | 50c32455ee44d9b753cb9f7eb97ab5047025b69d |
| README.rst | +6 | -0 |
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 4b38fed..0e7027e 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ drill: Make a file sparse without using extra disk space -------------------------------------------------------- + +**NOTE**: a patch was submitted and merged into util-linux > 2.24 adding this +functionality as part of the fallocate command. You should probably use that, +although if util-linux > 2.24 is not present on your platform and want to avoid +compiling util-linux, you can still find this useful. + :: drill [options] <filename>