[darcs-users] can we get rid of perl requirement in our test suite?

[Trent W. Buck]

Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu> writes:

> # The Unix classic for creating a file with all zeros
> dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1k count=1024

In that case you might as well make it sparse:

    dd bs=1 count=0 seek=1M of=sparsefile