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  /ERASE

 	This qualifier will erase the contents of the container file. For a
 	new file all blocks will be erased, if this qualifier is used in
 	combination with /EXTEND then only the extension of the file will
 	be erased, so the original contents will be preserved in that case.

 	This can be useful if a non-privileged user creates a container file,
 	and at certain blocks on disk is data which resembles blocks recognized
 	by INIT preventing initializing due to lack of VOLPRO privilege.

 	This qualifier is ignored when the container file is placed on a volume
 	with active highwater marking as the filesystem will take care of the
 	erasure in that case.
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