Re: cp command - problem with sparse

[Andreas Schwab]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Index: tests/du/8gb
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils/tests/du/8gb,v
> retrieving revision 1.6
> diff -u -p -r1.6 8gb
> --- tests/du/8gb      3 May 2003 14:24:37 -0000       1.6
> +++ tests/du/8gb      2 Feb 2005 03:19:31 -0000
> @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ fi
>  # If this file system doesn't support sparse files,
>  # don't try to create a file that'd end up consuming 8GB.
>  # This happens on Darwin6.5 with a file system of type `hfs'.
> -dd bs=1 seek=64K of=t < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
> +# NTFS requires 128K before a hole appears in a sparse file.
> +dd bs=1 seek=128K of=t < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>  set x `du -sk t`
>  if test "$2" = 64; then
                  ^^

Doesn't that need to be changed to 128 as well?

Andreas.

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