On 11/30/2013 11:56 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > May be the file you're trying to copy is sparse [1]? GNU tar does > support this. Flash drives typically contain FAT32 on them which > doesn't support sparse files, so when copying such a file from a "real" > file system to FAT32 the kernel's copying routine has to "stuff" the > file. > > Try running > > $ du --apparent-size -h backup272291.tar > > to see how much disk space it's worth taking into account its > sparseness, if any. > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file
If it was FAT32, then it wouldn't even accept files bigger than 2GB. That is by the way an information which we miss here: what kind of filesystem is on that flash medium? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/529a0e92.3010...@debian.org
