+"allocate a larger range of disk space than was specified."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: SS
+#: build/C/man2/fallocate.2:79
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "Deallocating file space"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#: build/C/man2/fallocate.2:94
+msgid ""
+"Specifying the B<FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE> flag (available since Linux 2.6.38) "
+"in I<mode> deallocates space (i.e., creates a hole) in the byte range "
+"starting at I<offset> and continuing for I<len> bytes. Within the specified "
+"range, partial file system blocks are zeroed, and whole file system blocks "
+"are removed from the file. After a successful call, subsequent reads from "
+"this range will return zeroes."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#: build/C/man2/fallocate.2:105
+msgid ""
+"The B<FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE> flag must be ORed with B<FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE> in "
+"I<mode>; in other words, even when punching off the end of the file, the "
+"file size (as reported by B<stat>(2)) does not change."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#: build/C/man2/fallocate.2:109
+msgid ""
+"Not all file systems support B<FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE>; if a file system "
+"doesn't support the operation, an error is returned."