copying 'holey' files ...

[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: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes)
> disk size: 652M
>
> to:
>
> image: dtc.img
> file format: raw
> virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes)
> disk size: 4.0G
>
> Is there a way of moving things around such that it *maintains* the holes,
> instead of fills them in?
>
> Thx
>
>
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