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		sedatk on Feb 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmer's critique of missing structure of oper... Windows supports storage of sparse data but probably it’s not what you mean.

nitrogen on Feb 23, 2020 [–]

If you are referring to sparse files, those are also present elsewhere (see the seek parameter to dd).

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