Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : > Wiki says "most file systems nowadays support sparse files". Afaik, ext3 and > NTFS5 support it. > Yep, but keep in mind that sparse is *not* used by default, AFAIK.
If you create a file using almost any tool it will not be stored as a sparse file. You have to request the sparse capability to actually use it, usually through using an option (see man pages). -- Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? Responsable technique r?gional Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) ? http://asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? http://www.auf.org/ Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam T?l. : +84 4 9331108 Fax : +84 4 8247383 Mobile : +84 91 3248747 ? Note personnelle : merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? ? ou Word, voir http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe non texte a ?t? nettoy?e... Nom: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Taille: 252 octets Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20080307/903b1d0a/attachment.pgp
