RE: [coLinux-users] making sparse files for partitions...

[Anders E. C (KI/EAB) <and...@er...>]

col...@li... wrote:
> 
> 
> Actually, only NTFS5 supports sparse files - Windows 200/XP and
> Windows NT 4.0 with SP6 only.
> 
Cool. Didn't know that.

> Check out the Wiki page:
> 
> http://www.colinux.org/wiki/index.php/NiceTools
> 
> scroll down to the "Colinux file utils " section. There are links to
> filesystem utilities I have created for creating sparse files and
> making existing files sparse. There are links to pre-built binaries
> for those who don't want to compiler their own.
> 

Thanks for the pointer (I figured someone had done this before!). It turns
out that the cygwin binaries fell off the web. I downloaded the source
and compiled under cygwin. The spSize thing returns immediately and 
prints nothing. trying mkSparse right now... (a -v switch please?)

/A