[Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: mkntfs on sparse files

[Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...>]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> At 17:25 15/07/02, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > > > > >- create file(s) [unfortunately sparse files don't work w/ mkntfs]
> > > > > why?
> > > >mkntfs -f -F 100M
> > > >mkntfs v1.6.99
> > > >ERROR: 100M is not a block device.
> > > >mkntfs forced anyway.
> > > >ERROR: Error: device is too small (103kiB). Minimum NTFS volume size
> > > >is 1MiB.
> > > >Aborting...
>
> Ok, this _sould_ now work (it does for me). If you could try it, too, it
> would be great.

Yes, now it's ok, thanks. Here is a quick summary how different fs's
handle sparse files and 0 bytes size file if volume size is specified.

           sparse file     0 byte file but given fs size
XFS            +                      -
JFS            -                      -
ext[23]        +(F,i)                 +(F,i)
reiserfs       +(f)                   -
ntfs           +(F)                   +(F)

F: only if -F (force) given
f: only if -f (force) given
i: it asks to proceed or not

	Szaka