Re: Sparse files

"Zoran Ljubisic" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can after I made backup with
>
> star -c bs=8m fs=128m -fifostats -time f=/dev/st0 . &> LogBck.txt
>
> I run diff with
>
>  star -diff -v bs=8m -fifostats -time f=/dev/st0 &> LogDiff.txt
>
> I get following:
>
> backup/evident/Outlook/sanja/sanja.pst: source not sparse
> backup/evident/Outlook/sanja/sanja.pst: different sparse

> What are sparse files and is this error or what?

---> man star

check for -sparse

BTW: it helps a lot to first read the man page because it should
include 99,9% of all information of interest.


Jörg

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