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.

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BSD, Linux

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English

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C

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2004-01-16