Re: Cooked Files

Andreas Walter wrote: > Hi all, > I want to create a new chunk in a cooked file. > The cooked file would lie in a existence file system. > Must I specify the offset parameter by the > onspaces command. I wouldn't do this, because > I think the chunk overrides me other files. Well, I don't know what that last sentence means, but no, as a general rule, you would not use offsets with cooked files. Generally, you create each chunk in its own file, and therefore, there is no need for offsets. Offsets are used so that different chunks can exist on the same raw disk partition, but in different locations, and also to skip over things that some manufacturers or LVM software put on the first cylinders of a disk, such as a label or table of contents. You *could* use offsets with a cooked file, e.g. by creating a single cooked file 2 GB in size, and creating two chunks on it, each of size 1 GB, one with offset 0, and one with offset 1 GB. But why would you do that, when you could just use two files? June -- june_t@hotmail.com Lost in the wilds of Palo Alto, living on Peanut M&M's