Reg Clemens wrote: > I need to copy a sparse file from one partition to another. > Actually, I need to copy it to an intermediate file, move that file to > another machine, > repartition, and then bring the sparse file back. > > The sparse copy is not that hard to write,- someone must have one, but my > scanning > of Fedora with 'man -k sparse' and 'man -k copy' don't find anything. > > Standard copy routines (and scp and tar) are not an option, as they will > expand the > file by a factor of more than 1000 from a little over 1MB to over 1GB. Ive > thought > of dump/restore (which doesnt seem to exist for Linux), and rdist, but both > seem > more complicated to setup than this problem deserves). > > Any thoughts? > Otherwise Ill have to write something tonight. Well, both cp and tar will handle sparse files. In this case, you will probably want to use tar with the -S or --sparse option. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
