Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 13:42 -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote:
I think I read, somewhere, that in doing that I could end up
with garbage bytes at the end of the last block in the copy,
and would need to use the size from the original inode to
trim the copied file. Don't know if that's fact or not.
I can't imagine why that would be true. A file is a file is a file.
The file doesn't occupy the entire last sector in most filesystems.
Maybe that's what was meant originally as garbage bytes - the whole file
is there, plus the (supposedly) empty remainder of the last sector.
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