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# fallocate
2018-05-06 14:08:41 +01:00
> Reserve or deallocate disk space to files.
> The utility allocates space without zeroing.
- Reserve a file taking up 700MB of disk space:
`fallocate --length {{700M}} {{path/to/file}}`
- Shrink an already allocated file by 200MB:
`fallocate --collapse-range --length {{200M}} {{path/to/file}}`
- Shrink 20MB of space after 100MB in a file:
`fallocate --collapse-range --offset {{100M}} --length {{20M}} {{path/to/file}}`