diff --git a/gguf-llama.cpp b/gguf-llama.cpp
index f80f823a0..0581755b1 100644
--- a/gguf-llama.cpp
+++ b/gguf-llama.cpp
@@ -614,6 +614,7 @@ struct ggml_context * ctx_data = NULL;
 struct gguf_file_saver {
     gguf_file file;
     gguf_file_loader * fl;
+    size_t info_offset;
     gguf_file_saver(const char * fname, gguf_file_loader * fl, enum llama_ftype new_ftype)
         : file(fname, "wb"), fl(fl) {
         fprintf(stderr, "llama.cpp: saving model to %s\n", fname);
@@ -734,6 +735,9 @@ struct gguf_file_saver {
             }
         }
 
+        info_offset  = file.tell();
+        size_t count = gguf_get_data_offset(fl->gguf_ctx) - info_offset;
+        file.write_zeros(count);
     }
 
 
diff --git a/gguf-util.h b/gguf-util.h
index 9134019a4..0964e6d02 100644
--- a/gguf-util.h
+++ b/gguf-util.h
@@ -106,18 +106,21 @@ struct gguf_file {
     }
 
     
-    void write_str(const std::string & val) {
+    size_t write_str(const std::string & val) {
+        size_t total_written = 0;
         const int32_t n = val.size();
-        fwrite((const char *) &n, sizeof(n), 1, fp);
-        fwrite(val.c_str(), n, 1, fp);
+        total_written += fwrite((const char *) &n, sizeof(n), 1, fp);
+        total_written += fwrite(val.c_str(), n, 1, fp);
+
+        return total_written;
     }
 
-    void write_i32(int32_t val) {
-        fwrite((const char *) &val, sizeof(val), 1, fp);
+    size_t write_i32(int32_t val) {
+        return fwrite((const char *) &val, sizeof(val), 1, fp);
     }
 
-    void write_u64(size_t val) {
-        fwrite((const char *) &val, sizeof(val), 1, fp);
+    size_t write_u64(size_t val) {
+        return fwrite((const char *) &val, sizeof(val), 1, fp);
     }
 
     template<typename T>
@@ -167,6 +170,12 @@ struct gguf_file {
             fwrite(val[i].c_str(), nstr, 1, fp);
         }
     }
+
+    void write_zeros(size_t count) {
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
+            fputc(0, fp);
+        }
+    }
 };
 
 #if defined(_WIN32)