manual: add section about dealing efficiently with big image files
authorYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Tue, 7 Jan 2014 22:46:08 +0000 (23:46 +0100)
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Thu, 9 Jan 2014 20:26:36 +0000 (21:26 +0100)
commitabd4124e5fcae93337d755ea5e913368d1c3efa1
treebf686f0e81b3a88a140b5184cfcc510935928ee4
parentf96e4d7f348ce1b7b53763f102bbedb1ef6a1991
manual: add section about dealing efficiently with big image files

As reported by Ryan, it is not well-known that most tools can deal
efficiently with big sparse files.

Add a section in the manual about this, with tar and cp used as
examples, and a hinting to the man pages for the others.

Reported-by: Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Ryan Barnett <rjbarnet@rockwellcollins.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
docs/manual/common-usage.txt