Hi Stephen, * Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> [09. Jan. 2003]: > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 16:15, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > It isn't hard to write a program though that will > > write a sparse file given a file with lots of zeros on stdin > > Actually, I think "cp --sparse=always" will do such a copy, and you can > use /dev/stdin as the source to make it work in a pipe: > > $ dd bs=4k count=100 if=/dev/zero | cp --sparse=always /dev/stdin /tmp/sparse > 100+0 records in > 100+0 records out > $ du /tmp/sparse > 0 /tmp/sparse > $ Cool. I never thought of cp as a filter. Thank you. Gregor _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
