Re: tar and --sparse

2010-09-23 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:40:13 +, T o n g wrote: > I created a Linux system tar ball without using the --sparse switch. The > .tar.bzip2 tar ball is only of 1.5G in size. However, restoring such tar > ball into a 10G partition would fail: > > Cannot write: No space left on device (...) Maybe

Re: tar and --sparse

2010-09-23 Thread Anand Sivaram
What is the actual size of the original file/directory before tarring? On the source side, try du -ms to find out the actual size on disk. That should be less than 10GB. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:29, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-22 22:40 +0200, T o n g wrote: > > > I created a Linux syste

Re: tar and --sparse

2010-09-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-22 22:40 +0200, T o n g wrote: > I created a Linux system tar ball without using the --sparse switch. > The .tar.bzip2 tar ball is only of 1.5G in size. However, restoring such > tar ball into a 10G partition would fail: > > Cannot write: No space left on device > > It fails even if