.\" Copyright 2011 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 . .\" .TH MKSPARSE 1 .SH NAME mksparse \- add a hole to the end of a file .SH SYNOPSIS .B mksparse .RB [ \-\-size =\fISIZE\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION .B mksparse appends a "whole" to the end of an existing file. It appends one real NUL byte at the end of the whole. .SH OPTIONS .TP .BR \-\-size "=\fISIZE" Size of the whole to append. The actual size is one byte less.