[email protected] wrote: > A few weeks ago I suggested that tar be given the ability to extract files > from archives sparsely. That is, files which contain runs of all-zero > bytes would be extracted as sparse files. [That's useful for saving disk > space, reducing disk I/O and making extracted files faster to work with.] > > Currently neither GNU tar nor star can do that, but the FreeBSD version of > tar can. It's in the bsdtar package in Debian-based Linux distributions.
Star does this since 1990. Use star -x -force-hole Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
