sparse files

[Man-wai Chang]

> Next I wanted to copy the image to another computer. So, I thought I
> would use tar's --sparse option to make a file to copy, and then untar
> it and have the sparse file on the other computer. Nope. The untarred
> file stops at 2GB. So, I thought I had some file size limit. So, I tried

What file system does your target system use?


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