Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: > Perhaps you saved the file from within vi. That might "unsparse" the > file.
Will "sparsing" or "unsparsing" the file (whichever is the one that fixes the problem) eliminate those blank spaces? I have 40M files that (after being copied to a second hard drive) show up correctly with "ls -sh" but then show up as 950MB files in "ls -l".
If I do "cp --sparse=always" or "rsync -av --sparse", will the file be returned to its normal real size? Will it still have all those blanks in it? And is there a way for me to check whether or not this is indeed my problem? Please see my other thread earlier today labeled "File sizes reported incorrectly (and huge!)" for more detail.
Thanks,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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