Buddha Buck (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} blaisepascal) wrote in madbodger, |
This isn't a problem until you start filling in the holes, though. Then you better have the disk space for the space you are actually using.
Making the holes is the sole reason the lseek method works, and cp, tar, mv, etc should, with the right arguments, respect the holes (i.e., copy, archive, or move the file without filling in the holes in the process).
Actually, I'm surprised that dd doesn't allow you to make files with holes already. Or maybe it does, somewhere in its commands. Commands people don't memorize because they don't use holey files...
Making the holes is the sole reason the lseek method works, and cp, tar, mv, etc should, with the right arguments, respect the holes (i.e., copy, archive, or move the file without filling in the holes in the process).
Actually, I'm surprised that dd doesn't allow you to make files with holes already. Or maybe it does, somewhere in its commands. Commands people don't memorize because they don't use holey files...
