---
title: supportsSparseFiles
framework: fskit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: fskit/fsvolume/supportedcapabilities/supportssparsefiles
---

# supportsSparseFiles

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

## Declaration

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

## Discussion

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.

## See Also

### Declaring file capabilities

- [supportsZeroRuns](fskit/fsvolume/supportedcapabilities/supportszeroruns.md)
- [supportsFastStatFS](fskit/fsvolume/supportedcapabilities/supportsfaststatfs.md)
- [supports2TBFiles](fskit/fsvolume/supportedcapabilities/supports2tbfiles.md)
- [supportsOpenDenyModes](fskit/fsvolume/supportedcapabilities/supportsopendenymodes.md)
- [supportsHiddenFiles](fskit/fsvolume/supportedcapabilities/supportshiddenfiles.md)
- [doesNotSupportImmutableFiles](fskit/fsvolume/supportedcapabilities/doesnotsupportimmutablefiles.md)
- [doesNotSupportSettingFilePermissions](fskit/fsvolume/supportedcapabilities/doesnotsupportsettingfilepermissions.md)