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Take a look at the cp man page - https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cp.1.html https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cp.1.html Look for "reflink" an

Take a look at the cp man page - https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cp.1.html https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cp.1.html Look for "reflink" and you get your wish :)

bartimus 4y ago
Very cool! :)
jwilk 4y ago
FICLONE is the underlying ioctl: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_ficlone.2.html https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_ficlone.2.ht... As of Linux 5.18, it's supported by btrfs, xfs, overlayfs and some networking filesystems.