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Subject: Re: [9fans] disk/^(mbr format fdisk prep)
From: Richard Miller <rm@hamnavoe.com>
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Date: Sat,  8 May 2004 10:58:56 +0100
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The disk utilities do work with regular files (see the last few lines of
/sys/src/libdisk/disk.c), but you probably need to preallocate one of
the required size.  Try dd -if /dev/zero ...

-- Richard