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tar: /sys/class/netlink/skip/dev: File shrank by 0 bytes; padding with
zeros
tar: /sys/class/netlink/route/dev: File shrank by 3072 bytes; padding
with zeros

Maybe one of my command-line options is negating the use of -l ?


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:39, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:21, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I tried the -l option and it seemed that tar did not understand that
> > /sys was a different filesystem. I saw it walking that directory trying
> > to add those files.  /sys is sysfs.
> 
> Works on my laptop.
> 
> sunburn:/# tar clvf /dev/null ./
> ./sys/
> tar: ./sys/: file is on a different filesystem; not dumped
> 
> 
> sunburn:/# stat /
>   File: `/'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: 302h/770d       Inode: 2           Links: 21
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2004-05-05 07:35:04.000000000 -0400
> Modify: 2004-05-13 11:51:46.000000000 -0400
> Change: 2004-05-13 11:51:46.000000000 -0400
> 
> sunburn:/# stat /sys/
>   File: `/sys/'
>   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: 0h/0d   Inode: 1           Links: 8
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2005-01-19 14:26:21.000000000 -0500
> Modify: 2005-01-11 12:32:29.000000000 -0500
> Change: 2005-01-11 12:32:29.000000000 -0500
> 
> sunburn:/# uname -a
> Linux sunburn 2.6.5 #1 Mon May 3 17:45:45 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> sunburn:/# tar --version
> tar (GNU tar) 1.13.93
> Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public
> License;
> see the file named COPYING for details.
> Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 13:56, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > > --preserve on extraction always worked for me.
> > > 
> > > I recommend creating a backup file per file system with -l or
> > > --one-file-system using a relative path.
> > > 
> > > 	(cd /  ; tar cjvlf tarfile1.bz2 ./)
> > > 	(cd /usr ; tar cjvlf tarfile2.bz2 ./)
> > > 
> > > makes it easier to install from bare metal.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 12:46, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to create a file system backup using 'tar -cjpsvf
> > > > /bu/full.tar.bz2 /bin /boot /opt /home ...'.  When I extract the files
> > > > they are all owned by root.  Should I use the '--same-owner' option on
> > > > extraction?
> > > > 
> > > > Chris
> > > > 
> > > > 
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