Despite this, the filesystem might still report the logical size of the files, which includes the sparse regions, making it seem like more data is stored than the physical capacity. Sparse File Handli...Despite this, the filesystem might still report the logical size of the files, which includes the sparse regions, making it seem like more data is stored than the physical capacity. Sparse File Handling: The filesystem writes the non-zero data blocks and skips the zero blocks, initially allowing the copy to proceed. Disk Usage Reporting: du -sh shows the logical size of the files, including the sparse regions, which can exceed the physical capacity.
