[ale] ZFS on Linux

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 04/01/2013 09:18 AM, Chris Ricker wrote:
> What you can still do, however, is truncate an existing file. So find a
> big file,
> 
> # cat /dev/null > /path/to/big/sacrificial/file
> 
> and repeat until you've freed up enough space to work more
> conventionally. It gets more "entertaining" if snapshots are involved,
> of course...

Would:

$ truncate -s 0 /path/to/big/sacrificial/file

... not work for the same reason as an rm wouldn't in that case?

	--- Mike

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