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Re: [Bug-tar] Workaround for extracting archives sparsely
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Workaround for extracting archives sparsely |
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:48:00 +0100 |
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nail 11.22 3/20/05 |
address@hidden 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
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