Re: Is there a "make hole" (truncate in middle) syscall?

[Mike Fedyk]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:11:03PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> I found this paragraph in the man page of GNU cp:
> 
>        --sparse=WHEN
>               always Always make the output file sparse.  This is
>                      useful when the  input  file  resides  on  a
>                      filesystem  that  does  not  support  sparse
>                      files, but the output file is on a  filesys-
>                      tem that does.

So with this, you can create sparse files for an entire set of files by just
cping them? :)
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