copying 'holey' files ...

2008-11-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: image: debian.img file format:

Re: copying 'holey' files ...

2008-11-03 Thread Matt
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs ... but,

Re: copying 'holey' files ...

2008-11-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sweet, never even thought about doing that ... thank you ... - --On Monday, November 03, 2008 11:04:22 -0600 Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: copying 'holey' files ...

2008-11-03 Thread Fabian Keil
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: image: debian.img file

Re: copying 'holey' files ...

2008-11-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a disk img for qemu that is 4G, but disk usage is only 650M ... due to how the image is created, it will grow to 4G, but only uses as much as it needs ... but, if I run a simple 'cp' on the file, it goes from: tar have options for that image: debian.img file format: raw virtual size: