sparsefile not included ======================= Upstream provides a program `sparsefile` to create sparse files conveniently. It is not included in the Debian package. To create sparse files, use fallocate(1) provided by the essential package util-linux. Migrating from vblade-persist ============================= Starting with version 24-2, the vblade provides persistence, see vblade-persistence(5) for details. For users of vblade-persist, there's a configuration conversion utility at /usr/share/vblade/vblade-persist-convert. For details, see vblade-persist-convert(8).