Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 21:27:24 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying 'holey' files ... Message-ID: <20081103212713.M12114@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <F051A44CEADE0E79AEA7654E@ganymede.hub.org> References: <F051A44CEADE0E79AEA7654E@ganymede.hub.org>
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> > I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to > how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs > ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: tar have options for that > > image: debian.img > file format: raw > virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) > disk size: 652M > > to: > > image: dtc.img > file format: raw > virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes) > disk size: 4.0G > > Is there a way of moving things around such that it *maintains* the holes, > instead of fills them in? > > Thx > > > - -- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkkPKWEACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvNJIwCeOTgfxMEf/g/7bnFehXlDZAva > dCwAoJL8sNsCD+h3PnJAAzebAQFsHhfa > =fcAm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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