Well after more digging found that the files not included in tar archive were tied to hard links. Displayed by find command:
find . -type f ! -links 1 -prinff "%i %n %p\n" | sort -n
Now I need a solution to cloning a partition that clones hard links correctly.
- tried drivecopy ( died on CRC error ) - dd incorrectly writes one less sector than read on partions with odd numbered sectors
Brock Wolfe ___________________________________________________________________ "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." --- Henry Ford ___________________________________________________________________
Brock Wolfe wrote:
Saw a demo last month of the rsync command. You may want to look into it.
Later Mike
According to Brock Wolfe:
I found it almost unbelievable that there'd be such a serious error in tar, but sure enough, it's a known problem...
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63046
Fortunately, it's fixed in Red Hat 7.3 and newer (including rawhide), so you'd just have to get the newer RPM package for tar and update your installed version.
Now I need a solution to cloning a partition that clones hard links correctly.
As long as the file system is not actively being changed, I find that dump and restore work great for cloning partitions, as they preserve just about all the inode information intact. Linus Thorvalds and many of the kernel gurus strongly discourage their use under kernels 2.3.x and newer, but the problem appears to be limited to file systems that are actively being changed, because of the way file information is cached at different levels.
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Brock Wolfe -
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Mike Pfaiffer