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| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/tests/test_format.py | 3 |
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diff --git a/numpy/lib/tests/test_format.py b/numpy/lib/tests/test_format.py index 73b1e7c12..c294637ad 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/tests/test_format.py +++ b/numpy/lib/tests/test_format.py @@ -626,6 +626,9 @@ def test_large_file_support(): # try creating a large sparse file with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tf: try: + # seek past end would work too, but linux truncate somewhat + # increases the chances that we have a sparse filesystem and can + # avoid actually writing 5GB import subprocess as sp sp.check_call(["truncate", "-s", "5368709120", tf.name]) except: |