On 12/09/16, mark lewis pondered and said...   
       
    ml> yup... as long as politics, religion, or money are involved, we do all   
    ml> seem to get along pretty well :lol:   
      
   :)   
      
    ml> FWIW: the way to create that file with dd?   
    ml>    
    ml>   dd if=/dev/zero of=lastread.bbs count=1 bs=400   
      
   That rings bells, I used this when setting up my INN2 server to create   
   cycbuff storage files of 50 gigabytes each... it was a cool way to set them   
   up.   
      
   Thanks for the detailed info you shared :)   
      
   Best, Paul   
      
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