On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 17:06 +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:49 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Note also that if you're not careful you can backup a file or even a > > filesystem that you can't restore because it's too big, especially > if > > copying it to some medium (e.g. a tape drive or non-UNIX disk > system) > > that can't handle sparse files. > > Mostly this should not be too much of a problem because one would > usually > archive in some way and one depends on the archiver to manage the > sparse files. > GNU tar has a --sparse option. So with the --sparse option a tar > archived set of > files should fit back where they came from. That's what "being careful" means. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
