After cloning a hard disk I discovvered missing files on the target hard drive. After looking around it seems that tar did not include files from multiple locations on the source hard drive. In a specific case it failed to include 6 files from the /sbin directory. The tar command used (login as root) on the source disk ( RH 7.1, ext2 ) was :

tar cvplf /var/tmp/root.tar /

Repeating this exercise on a (RH 6.2 ext2) box did not duplicate the problem of missing 6 files.

Repeating the following command on the orginal source disk (RH7.1 ext2) reproduced the problem of missing 6 files..

tar cvplf /var/tmp/sbin.tar /sbin

I would just move these 6 files over by other means but there are too many files in other partitions missing to make this practical.

Any ideas on the source of the problem?

Brock Wolfe ___________________________________________________________________ "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." --- Henry Ford ___________________________________________________________________