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

Mike Fedyk
2003-12-05T22:41:57Z

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? :)