Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:31:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: yyang <yyang@nla.gov.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: minor number too large ?? Message-ID: <19980311123137.47111@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3505A517.1626@nla.gov.au>; from yyang on Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 12:39:51PM -0800 References: <3505A517.1626@nla.gov.au>
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On Tue, 10 March 1998 at 12:39:51 -0800, yyang wrote: > Any suggestions for the following error messages when I tried to backup > FreeBSD (v 2.1.5) system ? > > /usr/bin/tar: dev/rwd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped > /usr/bin/tar: dev/wd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped > /usr/bin/tar: dev/rwd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped The tar format allows for 16 bit device numbers: 8 bits major number (driver number) and 8 bits minor number (information to the driver). FreeBSD has 32 bit device numbers (8 bits major, as before, and 24 bits minor). The devices mentioned are those whose first 16 bits are non-0. We can't change the tar format, because then it wouldn't be compatible, so the only thing it can do is to skip them. It's not too serious a problem: you can remake all these devices with /dev/MAKEDEV. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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