When dumping a file with some messed-up block pointers, I discovered that I had a huge, and fully allocated destination file. (ls -s on the dump displayed some very large number, even though the original file only had about 8 blocks allocated.) It wouldprobably make more sense to seek over the gaps to create a sparse file. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html