Hi, i have two twofold e2image related questions: 1) The man page mentions "cp (1)"'s --sparse=always option. I wonder if there are sparse aware tools which a) display the "real" amount of disk space occupied by a sparse file b) compress sparse files (other than compressing very thightly several GiB of zeros) 2) "E2fsck, mke2fs, etc. will now reliably notice when image files are mounted using the loopback interface. (Addresses Sourceforge bug #619119)" (quoted from RELEASE-NOTES.gz) a) Is e2fsck now able to use (raw) e2images while repairing ext2 file systems? b) Is this also useful for ext3 file systems? Thanks for developing e2-tools and for the the great support in this list, Gregor -- echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D3F204445524F42snlbxq'|dc _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users