[virt-tools-list] virt-resize: respect sparse files

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 02:17:09AM -0400, T Johnson wrote:
> Thanks for getting back to me anyway. Can I also assume that the underlying
> copy isn't just a shell `cp` command that I could edit in a '--sparse'
> option for my own needs?

Not by a long shot ...

http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=tools/virt-resize;h=a70492e846acb9e60f96a11ac5064122a85b0106;hb=HEAD#l1129
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_copy_size

Rich.

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