rsync and sparce files
 

Hi,
Does anyone know how to find the sparse files? I am having issues with rsync with sparse files and need to generate a list of all sparse files on a file system.

Thanks
Kapil

You could run two finds over the system, one with
-exec ls -l {} \;
and one with
-exec du -b {} \;
and compare those two lists by file size. Chances are
that if there's a big difference that's where your sparse
files are ...


Cheers,
Tink

Does anyone know how to craete a sparse file. I tried this command:
echo hello | dd of=spar_file1 seek=999999

is it the right way?

kapil