Hello, I just experienced an unexpected GNU tar behaviour involving "-h". >From my understanding -h de-references symlinks and includes the files the symlinks point to instead of preserving the symlinks. This understanding - if I'm not misreading the man page - pretty much matches the description of this option.
However what I'm experiencing is - while -h indeed does not preserve the symlinks - it replaces them with hard links instead of actually de-referencing them and including the original file. This in particular is an issue, if you want to create a tarball for a filesystem which doesn't support any of such link types - e.g. FAT. So when extracting the tarball (created with -h) on a FAT filesystem, I'm experiencing errors like: tar: dir/target: Cannot hard link to ‘dir/origin’: Operation not permitted And nothing ends up where a symlink was present when creating the archive. Tar: tar (GNU tar) 1.30 OS : Debian/Buster Thanks in advance mirko
