-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-04-06 at 12:14 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote:
Yep, it's possible.
Or a lot of destination files could take up significantly more disk space than on the old disk drive.
¿A lot? No, shouldn't be a lot.
It depends on his data.
Suppose a program does this:
opens a file does an lseek 5000000000 writes one character and closes.
That's a sparse file. All but the last character are zeros.
I know what sparse files are :-) I simply doubt that many files are sparse. However, if you use *mule or similar, many will be sparse. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH+Pp2tTMYHG2NR9URAhUrAJ9lpkp2v8VrSh1YNc3TCG763ovjrQCfU8LN F/7KQjNmqXTlAkwnfcKWygg= =ItGR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----