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# supportsSparseFiles

A Boolean property that indicates whether the volume supports sparse files.

```
var supportsSparseFiles: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

A sparse file is a file that can have “holes” that the file system has never written to, and as a result don’t consume space on disk.

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