Can you mount the file system up and do a copy? cp --sparse=always > Thu Jul 27 2017 01:18:55 PM CDT from "admin" <admin at lctn.org> Subject: >Re: [tclug-list] Unable to copy over large vmdk files > > The problem you have is that scp/rsync etc are not preserving the > holes. All the empty blocks are being allocated on the disk and take > up real space. > > cp can handle such files, read the man page about sparse files. > Another option i have used in the past it to create a cpio archive > using --sparse, copy the cpio archive over and then unpack it, again > with --sparse. > > > > When atempting to use cpio --sparse, I get an error that sparse cannot be >used when creating a file. How would you include sparse in the cpio command >line? > > I discovered rsync uses a sparse flag and it seemed to be working fine but >then erred out at the end as in other attempts: > > rsync -av --progress --sparse >/home/raymond/LV2/NLS-Storage/NLS-Storage-flat.vmdk >/home/raymond/sdf/NLS-Storage/NLS-Storage-flat.vmdksending incremental file >list > NLS-Storage-flat.vmdk > 1,610,924,554,240 100% 236.33MB/s 1:48:20 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) > rsync: read errors mapping >"/home/raymond/LV2/NLS-Storage/NLS-Storage-flat.vmdk": Input/output error (5) > WARNING: NLS-Storage-flat.vmdk failed verification -- update discarded >(will try again). > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170727/0f2f6306/attachment.html>