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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:08:19PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> The easiest thing is to mount the file and copy /dev/zero to some
> filename.  When the disk fills up, delete the file...=20

What I do is rm the file as soon as it's created and dd is running;
that way, as soon as dd gets ENOSPC and quits, the file is removed and
the space is returned automatically.

--
Dan.

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