std::experimental::filesystem::resize_file (3) Linux Manual Page
std::experimental::filesystem::resize_file – std::experimental::filesystem::resize_file
Synopsis
Defined in header<experimental / filesystem>
void resize_file(const path &p, std::uintmax_t new_size);
(filesystem TS)
void resize_file(const path &p, std::uintmax_t new_size, error_code &ec);Changes the size of the regular file named by p as if by POSIX truncate: if the file size was previously larger than new_size, the remainder of the file is discarded. If the file was previously smaller than new_size, the file size is increased and the new area appears as if zero-filled.
Parameters
p – path to delete
new_size – size that the file will now have
ec – out-parameter for error reporting in the non-throwing overload
Return value
(none)
Exceptions
The overload that does not take a error_code& parameter throws filesystem_error on underlying OS API errors, constructed with p as the first argument and the OS error code as the error code argument. std::bad_alloc may be thrown if memory allocation fails. The overload taking a error_code& parameter sets it to the OS API error code if an OS API call fails, and executes ec.clear() if no errors occur. This overload has
noexcept specification:
noexcept
Notes
On systems that support sparse files, increasing the file size does not increase the space it occupies on the file system: space allocation takes place only when non-zero bytes are written to the file.
Example
demonstrates the effect of creating a sparse file on the free space
// Run this code
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <fstream>
#include <experimental/filesystem>
namespace fs = std::experimental::filesystem;
int main()
{
fs::path p = fs::current_path() / "example.bin";
std::ofstream(p).put('a');
std::cout << "File size: " << std::setw(10) << fs::file_size(p)
<< " Free space: " << fs::space(p).free << '\n';
fs::resize_file(p, 1024 * 1024 * 1024); // resize to 1 G
std::cout << "File size: " << fs::file_size(p)
<< " Free space: " << fs::space(p).free << '\n';
fs::remove(p);
}
Possible output:
See also
file_size (function)
space (function)