diff --git a/tests/sparse01.sh b/tests/sparse01.sh
index f49eaa78..15a06663 100755
--- a/tests/sparse01.sh
+++ b/tests/sparse01.sh
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ TAR_ARCHIVE_FORMATS="gnu oldgnu posix"
 
 genfile --length 1000 > begin
 genfile --length 1000 > end
-mksparse sparsefile 512 0 ABCD 1M EFGH 2000K IJKL
+genfile --sparse --file sparsefile --block-size 512 0 ABCD 1M EFGH 2000K IJKL
 tar -c -f archive --sparse begin sparsefile end
 echo separator