It’s super easy, to know if a file is sparse or not. Just use the ’s’ option of ls.

ls -alsh

will yield:

4.0K drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4.0K 2010-03-23 18:22 .
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K 2009-01-09 19:47 ..
12G -rw-r----- 1 root root 24G 2007-01-10 19:55 dompat.data
3.7G -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.1G 2009-01-06 21:09 dompat-hardy.sys
501M -rw-r----- 1 root root 501M 2007-01-07 16:40 dompat.swap


Where the first size column is the effective space taken on disk while the second size column is the max space of that file. We see that dompat.data is sparse, since its max size is 24 GB while it takes only 12 GB on disk.

References

• More information on command which can handle sparse files in this article

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