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authorLars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>2009-04-29 18:13:01 +0300
committerLars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>2009-04-29 18:13:01 +0300
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+.\" create-file.1 - manual page for the create-file command
+.\" Copyright (C) 2009 Lars Wirzenius
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.\"
+.TH CREATE-FILE 1
+.SH NAME
+create-file \- create a file full of zero bytes
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B create-file
+.RB [ -h ]
+.RB [ --help ]
+.RB [ --sparse ]
+.RB [ --size =\fISIZE ]
+.RI [ filename ]...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B create-file
+creates a file full of zero bytes (0x00, NUL).
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BR -h ", " --help
+Show a short help message.
+.TP
+.B --sparse
+Create a sparse file, which does not allocate disk blocks.
+.TP
+.BR --size =\fISIZE
+Create a file of
+.I SIZE
+bytes.
+The size may be have a suffix to indicate kilobyte (K, KB), megabyte (M, MB),
+or gigabyte (G, GB), or power-of-two multipliers for kibibyte (KiB),
+mebibyte (MiB), or gibibyte (GiB).
+All suffixes are case-insensitive.