Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:41:42 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Is there a "make hole" (truncate in middle) syscall? |
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:11:03PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > I found this paragraph in the man page of GNU cp: > > --sparse=WHEN > always Always make the output file sparse. This is > useful when the input file resides on a > filesystem that does not support sparse > files, but the output file is on a filesys- > tem that does.
So with this, you can create sparse files for an entire set of files by just cping them? :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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