id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 2715 Copy issue with sparse files BzF "If I copy sparse file (created with: dd if=/dev/zero of=01-sparse.img bs=1 count=0 seek=1M ) using mc built-in copy (F5) then it creates file with allocated size (02-sparse-mc4.8.1.img) If I use cp (cp 01-sparse.img 03-sparse-cp.img) it keeps the size unallocated: $ ls -al 01-sparse.img 02-sparse-mc4.8.1.img 03-sparse-cp.img -rw-r--r-- 1 boris boris 1048576 2012-01-17 23:02 01-sparse.img -rw-r--r-- 1 boris boris 1048576 2012-01-17 23:02 02-sparse-mc4.8.1.img -rw-r--r-- 1 boris boris 1048576 2012-01-17 23:03 03-sparse-cp.img but $ ls -1 -s 01-sparse.img 02-sparse-mc4.8.1.img 03-sparse-cp.img 0 01-sparse.img 1024 02-sparse-mc4.8.1.img 0 03-sparse-cp.img " enhancement new major Future Releases mc-core 4.8.1 andrey.gursky@… no branch