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Date:      Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:09:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Current List <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: tar : needs some attention?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011060809130.27477-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001106080532.A72115@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, John W. De Boskey wrote:

> 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?

Nope. Expected behaviour for interoperability with other unix systems.





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