sparse files

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:41 -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote:

> I've been so fixated on learning why tar wouldn't work, that until today, 
> haven't looked for any alternatives. Finally, just now I googled only for 
> 'Linux & sparse' and guess what popped up -- the cp command! Here's the 
> relevant parts from `info cp`:

Interesting. I read something that hinted of this, but not so specific.
When I get ny hard disk running again, I will give this a try.

I really like the bit on cp making blocks of zeros sparse when copying
non-sparse files.

Thanks for the tip! I will post a progress report after I again try to
copy my XP image to my laptop.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>