Is there anything funny about the files in question? Do you have permissions
on them? Are they regular files or special devices? Can you list them here?
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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:38:21 -0700
From: Brock Wolfe obwolfe@shaw.ca
To: "roundtable@muug.mb.ca" roundtable@muug.mb.ca
Reply-to: Wolfe obwolfe@shaw.ca
Subject: [RndTbl] stuck in tar
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
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