How to safely copy full filesystems with large files (10Gb files)

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Originally Posted by dragonov7

What I mean is, it doesn't matter that a sparse file is 10 Gb big and only 1 Gb of it is filled with usefull data, the df or ls -lh or du -sh commands have to return that the file is 10 Gb big.... right?!?!

du reports disk used, not file size. Never quite the same thing at the best of times(i.e. 1K file in a filesystem with 4K clusters takes a minimum of 4K space), and the difference could be enormous for a sparse file, since arbitrary parts of the file aren't on disk at all.

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