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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That should result in a sparse file on any sane filesystem, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Theoretically, yes. Theoretically NTFS supports sparse files, but I don't know if the feature is enabled by default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It supports it, but it's opt-in by apps.

Enabling compression is another option (Though with a speed and size penalty), it's user visible at least.