Another tool I havent seen mentioned yet is 'pax' (mostly useful on commercial *NIX), but it looks like some linux utils support sparse files (tar, cp, etc) already. -off On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:58:58PM -0600, 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. >