> Some time ago it was rumored that cp cannot copy files with holes, it > just fills the holes :-( There's even a package to work around this, > perforate. Is it still true that cp -a cannot preserve holes? > > Carlos
No, this rumor is quite easy to falsify. GNU cp makes a copy with holes iff the original has holes. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1k count=200 200+0 records in 200+0 records out $ cp foo bar $ du -s foo bar 201 foo 201 bar $ zum foo foo [1608K] [1 link] $ cp foo bar1 $ du -s foo bar bar1 0 foo 201 bar 0 bar1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
