[hackers] [ubase] Add fallocate manpage || sin

From: <git_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:05:41 +0200

commit 555e6bc447139f530750e3e97a0d563c416aad89
Author: sin <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Sat Apr 12 14:04:38 2014 +0100

    Add fallocate manpage

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+.TH FALLOCATE 1 ubase-VERSION
+.SH NAME
+ Bfallocate R - preallocate blocks to a file
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+ Bfallocate R [ B-o I offset R] B-l R Ilength file R
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+ Bfallocate R preallocates blocks to a file. Only certain filesystems
+support the fallocate system call. This is a very fast operation to allocate
+uninitialized blocks in a file without doing any IO.
+As of the Linux Kernel v2.6.31, the fallocate system call is supported
+by the btrfs, ext4, ocfs2, and xfs filesystems.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+ B-o R Specifies the beginning offset of the allocation, in bytes.
+.TP
+ B-l R Specifies the length of the allocation, in bytes.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+fallocate(2)
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