Copying Sparse files?

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Another tool I havent seen mentioned yet is 'pax' (mostly useful on commercial *NIX), but it looks like some linux utils support sparse files (tar, cp, etc) already.

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On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:58:58PM -0600, Reg Clemens wrote:
> I need to copy a sparse file from one partition to another.
> Actually, I need to copy it to an intermediate file,  move that file to 
> another machine,
> repartition, and then bring the sparse file back.
>