Eric Anderson wrote:
It could possibly be bad if you have a real file (say a 10GB file, partially filled with zeros - a disk image created with dd for instance), and you use cp with something like -spR to recursively copy all files. Your destination disk image would then be a sparse file, so
Incidentally, this is exactly why I've needed it - I like to create disk images for virtual machines as sparse files, when I know they won't be much filled, but need the "virtual" space :)
_______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
