Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 10:54:04 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] moving sparse Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970307105146.17148B-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <199703071533.HAA20833@freefall.freebsd.org>
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tar --sparse dump probably cpio (ie. any of the above to a file, then ftp the file and unarchive it) On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > how should i move a file with "holes" from one machine to another. > > the immediate problem is Mathematica notebooks. these "sparse files" > are shown by "ls" to be 140MB long (every Mathematica notebook is the > same length according to "ls") even though each one is less than > 200kB on disk (du -s ). "mv" and "ln" work fine of course. > > but how do i transfer these from machine to machine? ftp inflates > them to full size. ack! > > jmb >
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