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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 05:56:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
To:        Lou Katz <lou@metron.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tar broken for large files?
Message-ID:  <200205170356.g4H3uLxA001620@gits.gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020514201403.A38469@metron.com>

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On May 14, 2002 08:14:03 pm -0700, Lou Katz wrote:

> Obviousls, tar is not copying things correctly. Is this a known bug?
> # tar --version
> GNU tar version 1.11.2

did you try w/ the port version of GNU tar, not the base system one ?

# type gtar
gtar is /usr/local/bin/gtar
# gtar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25

also, how about using pax  ?

FYI, for writting, use pax -w -x ustar -f /dev/sa0
and for reading, use pax -r -pp -f /dev/sa0

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net

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