tar and --sparse

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I created a Linux system tar ball without using the --sparse switch. 
The .tar.bzip2 tar ball is only of 1.5G in size. However, restoring such 
tar ball into a 10G partition would fail:

 Cannot write: No space left on device

It fails even if I've used the --sparse switch when restoring. 10G is 
more than 6 times bigger than 1.5G. Does it really require that much of 
space, or I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks

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