diff --git a/src/uu/dd/src/dd.rs b/src/uu/dd/src/dd.rs
index b75565a93..206f4480e 100644
--- a/src/uu/dd/src/dd.rs
+++ b/src/uu/dd/src/dd.rs
@@ -324,6 +324,17 @@ impl Dest {
             Self::File(f, _) => f.seek(io::SeekFrom::Start(n)),
         }
     }
+
+    /// Truncate the underlying file to the current stream position, if possible.
+    fn truncate(&mut self) -> io::Result<()> {
+        match self {
+            Self::Stdout(_) => Ok(()),
+            Self::File(f, _) => {
+                let pos = f.stream_position()?;
+                f.set_len(pos)
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// Decide whether the given buffer is all zeros.
@@ -406,7 +417,6 @@ impl<'a> Output<'a> {
         // suppress the error by calling `Result::ok()`. This matches
         // the behavior of GNU `dd` when given the command-line
         // argument `of=/dev/null`.
-
         if !settings.oconv.notrunc {
             dst.set_len(settings.seek).ok();
         }
@@ -570,6 +580,18 @@ impl<'a> Output<'a> {
         // Flush the output, if configured to do so.
         self.sync()?;
 
+        // Truncate the file to the final cursor location.
+        //
+        // Calling `set_len()` may result in an error (for example,
+        // when calling it on `/dev/null`), but we don't want to
+        // terminate the process when that happens. Instead, we
+        // suppress the error by calling `Result::ok()`. This matches
+        // the behavior of GNU `dd` when given the command-line
+        // argument `of=/dev/null`.
+        if !self.settings.oconv.notrunc {
+            self.dst.truncate().ok();
+        }
+
         // Print the final read/write statistics.
         let prog_update = ProgUpdate::new(rstat, wstat, start.elapsed(), true);
         prog_tx.send(prog_update).unwrap_or(());
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_dd.rs b/tests/by-util/test_dd.rs
index d0998ecda..03877d1d5 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_dd.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_dd.rs
@@ -1394,3 +1394,27 @@ fn test_sync_delayed_reader() {
     assert_eq!(&output.stdout, &expected);
     assert_eq!(&output.stderr, b"0+8 records in\n4+0 records out\n");
 }
+
+/// Test for making a sparse copy of the input file.
+#[test]
+fn test_sparse() {
+    let (at, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();
+
+    // Create a file and make it a large sparse file.
+    //
+    // On common Linux filesystems, setting the length to one megabyte
+    // should cause the file to become a sparse file, but it depends
+    // on the system.
+    std::fs::File::create(at.plus("infile"))
+        .unwrap()
+        .set_len(1024 * 1024)
+        .unwrap();
+
+    // Perform a sparse copy.
+    ucmd.args(&["bs=32K", "if=infile", "of=outfile", "conv=sparse"])
+        .succeeds();
+
+    // The number of bytes in the file should be accurate though the
+    // number of blocks stored on disk may be zero.
+    assert_eq!(at.metadata("infile").len(), at.metadata("outfile").len());
+}