From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 6 8: 5:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 821) id AF49F37B4CF; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:05:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:05:33 -0800 From: "John W. De Boskey" To: Current List Subject: tar : needs some attention? Message-ID: <20001106080532.A72115@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Each night I run a 'make release' and then tar it off to a public storage area... For some time now, tar has been complaining... tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t32: minor number too large; not dumped tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t33: minor number too large; not dumped tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t34: minor number too large; not dumped tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t35: minor number too large; not dumped tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t36: minor number too large; not dumped tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t37: minor number too large; not dumped tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t38: minor number too large; not dumped tar: cdrom/disc2/dev/acd0t39: minor number too large; not dumped Is this the expected behaviour, or is it worth digging into tar and making some fixes? -John ps: This is on a current machine.... :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message