On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:37:42 -0500, Dennis Wicks<w...@mgssub.com> wrote:
>What does it mean when tar displays message "file changed as >we read it"? Is anything wrong? BTW All instances involved >jpg files. > > Are you by any chance adding all files in a folder to a tarball inside the same folder? This will cause this message to be shown, since such a command will try to add the created tarball to itself. An example: tar czvf mytar . This will add all files in the folder to "mytar", but since mytar also is created in the same folder, eventually it will come to that file, and when does, it will try to be added to itself. A solution is to work on the archive one folder up from the files you want to tar: tar czvf archive myfolder or tar cvzf ../archive . -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se gus...@gusnan.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130320001125.5a329...@debian.lan
