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I am trying to create a file with hole using the truncate command. I read up in some posts and one of the answers in this post says to use truncate command. Filesystem used is btrfs. This is the command

$: truncate -s 16K holes

$: du holes
$: 16      holes
$:  stat holes
File: holes
  Size: 16384           Blocks: 32         IO Block: 4096   regular file

As can be seen, its allocating 16 blocks...my understanding was that it will allocate 0 blocks as mentioned that answer as well. Did I make a mistake in understanding what truncate is doing?

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  • What is the filesystem? Commented Oct 5, 2023 at 2:59
  • @KamilMaciorowski its a normal centos /dev/vda3 Commented Oct 5, 2023 at 6:14
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    That still does not answer what filesystem is used. You can show that by running mount |grep vda3 Commented Oct 5, 2023 at 6:18
  • @GeraldSchneider it shows a lot of output, but btrfs is probably what you are asking? Commented Oct 5, 2023 at 6:39
  • You could just edit the output into your question, but yes, btrfs sounds reasonable. Commented Oct 5, 2023 at 6:39

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I can't reproduce your findings:

$ ls -la
total 24
drwxrwxr-x   2 tink tink  4096 2023-10-06 05:45 .
drwxr-x--- 180 tink tink 20480 2023-10-06 05:30 ..
$ truncate -s 16K holes
$ du holes
0   holes
$ stat holes
  File: holes
  Size: 16384       Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 46402746    Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: ( 1000/  tink)   Gid: ( 1000/  tink)
Access: 2023-10-06 05:46:36.012153267 +1300
Modify: 2023-10-06 05:46:36.012153267 +1300
Change: 2023-10-06 05:46:36.012153267 +1300
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Are you sure you're using btrfs (which supposedly supports sparseness, I can't confirm as I'm on ext4) and not something like vfat?

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  • yes I am using btrfs...I get this filesystem name when I run mount | grep vda3. Is there any other way to know? Commented Oct 6, 2023 at 3:04
  • Then I'm at a loss. Most likely unrelated, but what virtualisation platform are you running your centos under? Commented Oct 6, 2023 at 17:09

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