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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: holes in files
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Date: 17 Dec 90 21:28:10 GMT
References: <6193:Dec618:43:4390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1820@b15.INGR.COM> <2806@cirrusl.UUCP> <8432:Dec1622:40:0790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
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In <8432:Dec1622:40:0790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

   I want to make sure that blocks 17 through 22 (expressed in byte
   sizes) will be guaranteed not to run out of space when I write to
   them. You're saying that I should have no way to make this
   guarantee.

Well, "df" works nicely.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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