[RndTbl] Re: Contents of Roundtable digest...

[Quinn Wilson]

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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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:38:21 -0700
> From: Brock Wolfe <obwolfe at shaw.ca>
> To: "roundtable at muug.mb.ca" <roundtable at muug.mb.ca>
> Reply-to: Wolfe <obwolfe at 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?
> 
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> 
> Brock Wolfe
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