Copying Sparse files?

[Mike McMullen]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>
>> Standard copy routines (and scp and tar) are not an option, as they will 
>> expand the
>> file by a factor of more than 1000 from a little over 1MB to over 1GB.  Ive 
>> thought
>> of dump/restore (which doesnt seem to exist for Linux), and rdist, but both 
>> seem

dump and restore are on my FC4 boxes. I assume they are on FC5
as well.

In FC4 the package is dump-0.4b40-2.

Hope this helps,

Mike