Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... According to the cygwin mailing list, http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00013.html, cygwin already supports sparse files when you do lseek beyond EOF during writes. The trick, however, is that NTFS on Windows XP does not create a hole until

Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Index: tests/du/8gb === RCS file: /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils/tests/du/8gb,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -p -r1.6 8gb --- tests/du/8gb 3 May 2003 14:24:37 - 1.6 +++

Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Index: tests/du/8gb === RCS file: /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils/tests/du/8gb,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -p -r1.6 8gb --- tests/du/8gb 3 May

AW: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-02 Thread RE
Hi Eric, Thanks a lot for your mail. I just tried to send a mail to Corinna who answered you in the list but I am afraid that I am black-listed with her account and I don't know how to solve the problem. I already tried to get white-listed by sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , but it didn't

rm command

2005-02-02 Thread Hiren Pandya
Sir/Madadm I m having RED HAT LINUX 9.0 and have removed a file using rm command $rm hello The manual of rm command says that it is possible to recover the contents of the file on a not very busy system. The shrewd command removes files contents permanently Can you throw some light on

Re: AW: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to RE on 2/2/2005 3:11 AM: Hi Eric, Maybe you can answer my question or help me with my sparse problem which I am quoting in the following once again. [BTW I don't know if the patch you sent me will be needed, but if yes, I would not

Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this just theoretical, or do you know of a file system type that'd cause trouble (that doesn't support sparse files, yet for which meta data can take up extra space)? It's just a guess, I don't know of any example. It might well be that going from

Re: rm bug

2005-02-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Roman Avdeenko wrote: Run command rm -f * in virusmails directory And see -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long A common misunderstanding. The answer to your question is documented here: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/ Look for Argument list too long. In very short summary