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| author | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2010-05-27 09:49:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2010-05-27 09:49:28 +0100 |
| commit | 1d1cc4114d48623fb44e3d18e74407902c8f2ae9 (patch) | |
| tree | b7d57e6989d6ec7ae65cf52e8e5cc03785e992c2 /src | |
| parent | 6b500f1b8e1ac8d28c485a5591c2833b18cc86e2 (diff) | |
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Revise documentation on creating files.
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diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod index e3f6cf05..3794023a 100644 --- a/src/guestfs.pod +++ b/src/guestfs.pod @@ -258,7 +258,11 @@ L</guestfs_tgz_out>. It's often the case that you want to write a file or files to the disk image. -For small, single files, use L</guestfs_write>. +To write a small file with fixed content, use L</guestfs_write>. To +create a file of all zeroes, use L</guestfs_truncate_size> (sparse) or +L</guestfs_fallocate64> (with all disk blocks allocated). There are a +variety of other functions for creating test files, for example +L</guestfs_fill> and L</guestfs_fill_pattern>. To upload a single file, use L</guestfs_upload>. This call has no limits on file content or size (even files larger than 4 GB). |