GNU cp used to detect files that contain 0-filled holes and save disk space by skipping them with lseek when writing a file and thus not allocating disk blocks. Unfortunately it does no longer. So here is a program to make holes in existing files.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version N/A posted on 2004-02-05
Several fixes and updates - Version N/A posted on 2004-02-05
Program Details
- Category: System Utilities > Other
- Publisher: perforate-linux.sf.net
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: Array
- Platform: linux