Re: mail headers not set (cf question re tar)

On 24/09/2022 02:37, jr wrote: On Thursday, 22 September 2022 at 16:30:05 UTC+1, Max Nikulin wrote: ... Debian mail list archive has a rare mhonarc configuration that adds reply to list action (usually only reply to sender is available) and these mailto: links contain proper In-Reply-To value ht

Re: question re tar

On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 19:18:35 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: > I think the question was about a way/place/method to manually add such > headers from within Gmail, so that they can be present even when > replying to a message from within the digest, so that replies can be > made correctly while subscrib

Re: question re tar

On 2022-09-23 at 16:24, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > jr wrote: > >> I [...] cannot find an obvious (any!) place where headers could be set [...] >> I [...] hope that someone can/will supply Gmail specific instructions > > The normal way to participate is to subscribe your mail address at >

Re: question re tar

Hi, jr wrote: > I [...] cannot find an obvious (any!) place where headers could be set [...] > I [...] hope that someone can/will supply Gmail specific instructions The normal way to participate is to subscribe your mail address at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ or by sending a mail to

mail headers not set (cf question re tar)

hi, a single reply re the mail headers issue. On Thursday, 22 September 2022 at 09:20:06 UTC+1, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > ... > Your mails lack headers like "In-Reply-To:" or "References:", ... On Thursday, 22 September 2022 at 09:30:05 UTC+1, Tixy wrote: > ... > For a lot (most?) of us, your mes

Re: question re tar

On 22/09/2022 14:00, jr wrote: On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 17:20:05 UTC+1, Markus Schönhaber wrote: Could you please stop using a mail client that starts a new thread with every message you send? Please use something instead that really creates a reply when you are replying to someone (i

Re: question re tar

On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 08:00:34 +0100 jr wrote: > ouch. I read the digest, That could be your problem. If you would subscribe as a regular user, rather than to the digests (or in addition to) and reply to those messages, you might solve the problem. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? htt

Re: question re tar

On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 08:00 +0100, jr wrote: [...] > > [a reply that isn't one] > > > > Could you please stop using a mail client that starts a new thread with > > every message you send? > > Please use something instead that really creates a reply when you are > > replying to someone (i. e. somet

Re: question re tar

Hi, jr wrote: > I see a single thread only. cannot see "a new thread [started] with > every message", sorry. Your mails lack headers like "In-Reply-To:" or "References:", which should tell the Message Id of the mail to which you answer resp. some or all IDs of the thread. (My "References:" only

Re: question re tar

On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 17:10:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:29:07PM +0100, jr wrote: > > $ locate /jr/ | > > > grep -v -e /.cache/ -e /tmp/ | > > > > that is (one way) how the "ACTUAL CONTENTS" are arrived at. > That listing almost certainly includes subdire

Re: question re tar

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:29:07PM +0100, jr wrote: On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 13:10:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:31:58PM +0100, jr wrote: > ... > "What's in the file" > > file names, one per line. (and, before you ask, '\n' terminated lines) This is not help

Re: question re tar

21.09.22, 17:29 +0200, jr wrote: [a reply that isn't one] Could you please stop using a mail client that starts a new thread with every message you send? Please use something instead that really creates a reply when you are replying to someone (i. e. something that sets the In-Reply-To/Refere

Re: question re tar

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:29:07PM +0100, jr wrote: > $ locate /jr/ | > > grep -v -e /.cache/ -e /tmp/ | > > sed -e 's#/home/jr/##' > > that is (one way) how the "ACTUAL CONTENTS" are arrived at. That listing almost certainly includes subdirectory names. Hence your issues. You're feeding

Re: question re tar

On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 13:10:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:31:58PM +0100, jr wrote: > > ... > > "What's in the file" > > > > file names, one per line. (and, before you ask, '\n' terminated lines) > This is not helpful. We want to see the ACTUAL CONTENTS so

Re: question re tar

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:31:58PM +0100, jr wrote: > > > $ tar -cvWf $arcname $fnames > > > > > > where $fnames initially was a list in a variable (this is preparing a > > > shell script), then I switched to storing in those in a file and > > > $ tar -cvWf $arcname $(cat $fname_list_file) > > So..

Re: question re tar

hi, On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 01:40:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:19:50PM +0100, jr wrote: > > On Tuesday, 20 September 2022 at 12:30:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > ... > > > With this new information, it occurs to me that perhaps the OP did > > > somet

Re: question re tar

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:19:50PM +0100, jr wrote: > hi, > > On Tuesday, 20 September 2022 at 12:30:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > ... > > With this new information, it occurs to me that perhaps the OP did > > something like this: ... > > unicorn:/tmp/x$ find . | tar cv --files-from=- -f ../f

Re: question re tar

hi, On Tuesday, 20 September 2022 at 12:30:05 UTC+1, Greg Wooledge wrote: > ... > With this new information, it occurs to me that perhaps the OP did > something like this: ... > unicorn:/tmp/x$ find . | tar cv --files-from=- -f ../foo.tar I prefer 'locate' to 'find'. an no guessing involved, as

Re: question re tar

> It seems some files are present multiple times in your list. > > echo text >file.txt > tar cvWf test.tar file.txt file.txt > tar tvf test.tar Sorry, I deleted this message, and then had a thought a few minutes later, so I'm quoting text from the mailing list archive. With this new information,

Re: question re tar

Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > It seems some files are present multiple times in your list. > tar cvWf test.tar file.txt file.txt Well if it is that easy to create the situation, i can test what happens on restoring the tarball: $ tar cvf test.tar x x x x $ rm x rm: remove regular file ‘x’?

Re: question re tar

On 19/09/2022 02:37, jr wrote: when I saw the links and started investigating, I tried cat for the names, ie $ tar -cvWf $arcname $(cat $fnames) adding one or two file names on the command line works as expected, supplying names from list and or file produces those links. It seems some fil

Re: question re tar

On Monday, 19 September 2022 at 10:10:05 UTC+1, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > ... > But you could create a small ext filesystem in a file, mount it and make > experiments with it. oh, that's an excellent suggestion. thanks. will do that in the coming days. > > the "machine" is a VM, pre-installed by

Re: question re tar

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 08:24:08AM +0100, jr wrote: > _thank you_. another question, if you don't mind: what will happen > if I extract such an archive on a "normal" computer with ext3/4 > filesystems? (don't want to .. experiment with this) Since none of us can reproduce your archive, only you

Re: question re tar

Hi, i wrote: > > test/hardlinks/hardlink_x link to u/test/hardlinks/x This comes when i edit my experiment output to remove unnecessary local information. I forgot to remove that last "u/". jr wrote: > what will happen > if I extract such an archive on a "normal" computer with ext3/4 > filesyst

Re: question re tar

hi, On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 21:39, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Will Mengarini wrote: > > Note that the file-type character "h" (the leftmost character in your > > second line of output) isn't documented ... > The 'h' probably comes from {...} > which converts tar file type LNKTYPE to 'h'. thanks. (

Re: question re tar

Hi, Will Mengarini wrote: > Note that the file-type character "h" (the leftmost character in your > second line of output) isn't documented in > , The 'h' probably comes from https://sources.debian.org/src/

Re: question re tar

* jr [22-09/18=Su 12:59 +0100]: > When I create an archive with '-cvWf' I'm used to finding only the files > specified, but every time I use 'tar' on this Debian, there is a "link" for > each and every file. Why? eg: > -rw--- jr/jr 256 2022-06-1 22:10 .config/pulse/cookie > hrw--- jr/jr

Re: question re tar

hi, > What kind of file system are the files sitting on? btrfs. the system is the pre-installed (on Chromebooks) Debian VM. > What are the *exact* tar commands that you used, to create the archive, > and to get that partial listing that you gave? initially from a shell script, assembling a lis

Re: question re tar

On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:59:21 +0100 jr wrote: > I hope someone can help me to make 'tar' "behave" as expected. tia. > > when I create an archive with '-cvWf' I'm used to finding only the > files specified, but every time I use 'tar' on this Debian, there is > a "link" for each and every file. w

Re: question re tar

On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 12:59:21PM +0100, jr wrote: > when I create an archive with '-cvWf' I'm used to finding only the files > specified, but every time I use 'tar' on this Debian, there is a "link" for > each and every file. why? eg: > -rw--- jr/jr 256 2022-06-1 22:10 .config/pulse/cookie

question re tar

hi, I hope someone can help me to make 'tar' "behave" as expected. tia. when I create an archive with '-cvWf' I'm used to finding only the files specified, but every time I use 'tar' on this Debian, there is a "link" for each and every file. why? eg: -rw--- jr/jr 256 2022-06-1 22:10 .conf

Re: tar command and -X -T options.

Hi, I'm on Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 amd64, I always used tar command for my backups using a couple of file to include and exclude directories. Now something strange it happens: (username) means the name which it's used to login to the system. root@mitas:~# tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.23 root@mitas:

Re: tar command and -X -T options.

Franco Martelli, 28.03.2013: > Hi, > I'm on Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 amd64, I always used tar command for my > backups using a couple of file to include and exclude directories. > Now something strange it happens: > (username) means the name which it's used to login to the system. > > root@mitas:~# ta

Re: tar message

Andreas Rönnquist wrote the following on 03/19/2013 06:11 PM: On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:37:42 -0500, Dennis Wicks 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

Re: tar message

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:37:42 -0500, Dennis Wicks 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 ca

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

On 2013-02-28 16:39:23 +, Claudius Hubig wrote: > IOW, some more information on your setup (disk type, output of free > -m etc) might be helpful. I could reproduce the problem when Firefox was running. Here are two outputs of "free -m" while tar was running: ypig:~> free -m tota

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

Le Jeu 28 février 2013 19:22, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > But isn't it possible to lower the priority automatically (without > an additional command like ionice) when a process takes all the I/O > resources. Perhaps this isn't clear, but what I mean is that a process > shouldn't take constantly all

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

Darac Marjal wrote at 2013-02-28 10:50 -0600: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:38:23AM -0500, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > > Yes. You may want to change the "nice" level of the tar command so that > > it doesn't take up so much disk time. > > "nice tar" won't actually change how heavily tar uses the di

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

Dear Claudius, On 2013-02-28 16:39:23 +, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds > > to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? > > Depending on the IO priority of the tar command (p

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

Thanks to all who replied. To answer some questions, it is a spinning hard drive, and here's mount information: /dev/disk/by-uuid/e3631277-c4d0-460e-a2a3-6de16013e050 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered) and there was plenty of free RAM as usual (the machine has

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 05:27:19PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Is it normal that when using the "tar" command to create a big archive, > the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds > to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? > > htop sho

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

Dear Vincent, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds > to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? Depending on the IO priority of the tar command (probably higher if run as root, check with ionice) and the disk

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:38:23AM -0500, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > > Is it normal that when using the "tar" command to create a big archive, > > the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds > > to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? > > >

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

Vincent Lefevre: > > Is it normal that when using the "tar" command to create a big archive, > the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds > to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? No. What storage device is tar writing to/reading from? J

Re: tar -> unresponsive machine

> Is it normal that when using the "tar" command to create a big archive, > the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds > to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? > > htop shows that there is still plenty of memory and atop shows nothing > s

Re: tar --remove-files chokes on symlinks

Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-06-02 04:13 +0200, lrhorer wrote: > >> I have a cron script that runs tar on a directory in order to clean >> it >> up and minimize its size. I run the command: >> >> tar cf Backup_Server.tar.gz --remove-files * >> >> but during the tar process I get the errors: >>

Re: tar --remove-files chokes on symlinks

On 2011-06-02 04:13 +0200, lrhorer wrote: > I have a cron script that runs tar on a directory in order to clean it > up and minimize its size. I run the command: > > tar cf Backup_Server.tar.gz --remove-files * > > but during the tar process I get the errors: > > tar: /RAID/System/Backup/bin: Ca

Re: tar: cannot change ownership to uid 0

On Mon, 16 May 2011 14:16:23 -0300, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: > When I try to install a RTL driver in my testing box, under root, I got > this message when run tar: > > cannot change ownership to uid 0 ... > > Ar there a solution for that? (...) Hum... have you tried with "--no-same-owner"?

Re: tar and --sparse

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:40:13 +, T o n g wrote: > I created a Linux system tar ball without using the --sparse switch. The > .tar.bzip2 tar ball is only of 1.5G in size. However, restoring such tar > ball into a 10G partition would fail: > > Cannot write: No space left on device (...) Maybe

Re: tar and --sparse

What is the actual size of the original file/directory before tarring? On the source side, try du -ms to find out the actual size on disk. That should be less than 10GB. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:29, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-22 22:40 +0200, T o n g wrote: > > > I created a Linux syste

Re: tar and --sparse

On 2010-09-22 22:40 +0200, T o n g wrote: > I created a Linux system tar ball without using the --sparse switch. > The .tar.bzip2 tar ball is only of 1.5G in size. However, restoring such > tar ball into a 10G partition would fail: > > Cannot write: No space left on device > > It fails even if

Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

On Mon, 04 May 2009 13:48:07 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >> I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real >> >> directory. Is there any easy way to do it? >> >> >> >> Let me explain with an example (that you can try). . . >> >> I can't see that it would be possible to der

Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:23:33PM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > "Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > >On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +, T o n g wrote: > >> I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real > >> directory. Is there any easy way to do it? > >> > >> Let me explain

Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

"Douglas A. Tutty" writes: >On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +, T o n g wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real >> directory. Is there any easy way to do it? >> >> Let me explain with an example (that you can try): >> >> mkdir d1 >> touch d1

Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real > directory. Is there any easy way to do it? > > Let me explain with an example (that you can try): > > mkdir d1 > touch d1/{a,b,c} > ln -s c d1/d > ln -s d1 d2

Re: tar on flash drive

--- dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: From: "Douglas A. Tutty" To: pos...@basicisp.net Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: tar on flash drive Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:44 -0500 On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:01PM -0800, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: > I have a damaged system on my

Re: tar on flash drive

On 01/19/2009 07:42 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: does this mean you are excluding backing up email? In that command. The next two statements, though, are: tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_

Re: tar on flash drive

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:01PM -0800, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: > I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, > then will likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd > like to save the home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the > etc folder, kee

Re: tar on flash drive

On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > does this mean you are excluding backing up email? > > In that command.  The next two statements, though, are: > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_heather.tar.bz2 \ >      ho

Re: tar on flash drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> does this mean you are excluding backing up email? > > In that command. The next two statements, though, are: > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_he

Re: tar on flash drive

On 01/19/2009 06:11 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: ache/ \ --exclude=heather/.evolution/mail \ --exclude=heather/.evolution/cache \ --exclude=heather/.sylpheed-2.0 \ --exclude=me/Maildir \ --exclude=heather/Mail

Re: tar on flash drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > have a look at rdiff-backup For a one time solution, I'd prefer rsync instead of tar or rdiff-backup. I might be biased, though, because I prefer rsync for regular backups, too. (A small backup script creating snapshots with rsync

Re: tar on flash drive

On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > ache/ \ >          --exclude=heather/.evolution/mail   \ >          --exclude=heather/.evolution/cache   \ > --exclude=heather/.sylpheed-2.0 \ > --exclude=me/Maildir \ > --exclude=heather/Maildir \ >          home/ does this mean

Re: tar on flash drive

On 01/19/2009 01:25 AM, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, then will likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd like to save the home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the etc folder, keeping permissions. I'll us

Re: tar on flash drive

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:01PM -0800, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: > I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, then will > likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd like to save the > home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the etc folder, kee

Re: tar block question

Paulo Silva wrote: I think you can cut some steps Ter, 2008-09-16 às 10:49 -0700, Bob McGowan escreveu: [...] 2. losetup -f prints the name of the next available loop device, in my case it was /dev/loop0 3. losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/filename 4. losetup /dev/loop0

Re: tar block question

I think you can cut some steps Ter, 2008-09-16 às 10:49 -0700, Bob McGowan escreveu: [...] >2. losetup -f >prints the name of the next available loop device, in my case it >was /dev/loop0 > >3. losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/filename > >4. losetup /dev/loop0 >

Re: tar block question

Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/16/08 12:21, Bob McGowan wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- deleted tar/cpio disucssion -> But perhaps an iso or other disk image format would work better? The

Re: tar block question

Bob McGowan wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- deleted tar/cpio disucssion -> But perhaps an iso or other disk image format would work better? The file would be mounted using to loop d

Re: tar block question

On 09/16/08 12:21, Bob McGowan wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- deleted tar/cpio disucssion -> But perhaps an iso or other disk image format would work better? The file would be moun

Re: tar block question

Bob McGowan wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- deleted tar/cpio disucssion -> But perhaps an iso or other disk image format would work better? The file would be mounted using to loop device, updated with

Re: tar block question

Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, what do you recommend for such an annoyance? rsync takes a while for me. But I rather I have 1 large tar file and untar as needed. tar isn't the best tool to use for the job, especial

Re: tar block question

David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, what do you recommend for such an annoyance? rsync takes a while for me. But I rather I have 1 large tar file and untar as needed. tar isn't the best tool to use for the job, especially if you need 1 file

Re: tar syntax and backing up

Le dimanche 18 mars 2007 17:14, Tyler Smith a écrit : > Hi, > > Related to another post concerning the possible demise of my > harddrive, I thought I'd better confirm with wiser people that my > backup plan is doing what I think it's doing. > > I've got a full backup of all my important data in tar

Re: tar syntax and backing up

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:14:39PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Related to another post concerning the possible demise of my > harddrive, I thought I'd better confirm with wiser people that my > backup plan is doing what I think it's doing. > > I've got a full backup of all my important da

Re: tar syntax and backing up

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:14:39PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Related to another post concerning the possible demise of my > harddrive, I thought I'd better confirm with wiser people that my > backup plan is doing what I think it's doing. > > I've got a full backup of all my important da

Re: tar vs

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 03:11:22PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Pardon me if I say something stupid, but I don't know why tar cannot just > 1)run the .tar.rz file through

Re: tar vs

On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> - tar has been around forever >> - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar >>becoming more common even on com

Re: tar vs

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:26:40 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:16:04 +0200 > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400 > > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: tar vs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> - tar has been around forever >> - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar >>becoming more common even on commercial Unices) > > Tar is easily available even on W

Re: tar vs

- tar has been around forever - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar becoming more common even on commercial Unices) Tar is easily available even on Windows. Good programs like 7-zip and many, many others, can handle tar well. - gzip provides better compression th

Re: tar vs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:16:04 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400 > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage > > (s) of tar

Re: tar vs

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: > > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I > > still can't figure out

Re: tar vs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 11:08, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: >> I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I >> still can't figure out why this doesn't work: > >> $ tar xjf *.tar

Re: tar vs

On Saturday 17 March 2007 17:08, Frank McCormick wrote: > What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage(s) of > tar over ZIP/RAR for example. it works, that's all. ZIP and RAR aren't available everywhere and, AFAIK, are unable to represent UNIX permissions. Also, the separ

Re: tar vs

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:08:08PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: > > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I > > still can't figure out why this doesn't work: > > > > $ tar xjf *.tar.bz2 > > tar: beryl

Re: tar and filesystem characterset problem

At 1155388608 past the epoch, Erik Persson wrote: > I guess the filenames are stored in iso-latin1 in the > tar-file, but I don't know. The extract the files from > the tar-file on OS X 10.4 as well, but this fails for all > files containing the national characters. I want to > preserve the file

Re: tar/zip/bzip2

On 20.04.06 11:32, steef wrote: > what is the maximum-size of a file (if there is a maximum) to put in some > archive? > > [i mean tar, tar.gz and the like] according to "tar" info page, section Formats: Format UIDFile Size Path Name Devn gnu 1.8e19 Unlimited

Re: tar/zip/bzip2

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:32:54AM +0200, steef wrote: > hi folks, > > what is the maximum-size of a file (if there is a maximum) to put in some > archive? > > [i mean tar, tar.gz and the like] It seems to depend on the file system. I've hit limits at 2G and at 4G. I presume current versions

Re: tar/zip/bzip2

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:32 +0200, steef wrote: > hi folks, > > what is the maximum-size of a file (if there is a maximum) to put in some > archive? > > [i mean tar, tar.gz and the like] Depends on your versions of the kernel, glibc & tar. Modern versions of all 3 have LFS (Large File Support)

Re: tar/zip/bzip2

steef wrote: > hi folks, > > what is the maximum-size of a file (if there is a maximum) to put in some > archive? > > [i mean tar, tar.gz and the like] > > regards, > > steef > > Depending on whether or not your kernel and all userland utilities have the necessary support, it can be either

Re: Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

On 17 Feb 2006, Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Anthony Campbell<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home > > partition. > > > > If I do "tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac" everything seems to go correctly

Re: Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Campbell<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home > partition. > > If I do "tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac" everything seems to go correctly > but ends with the message "Error exit delayed fro

Re: tar: --delete macht tar-Archiv korrupt

Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:51:59PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Mache ich was falsch? > > Ja: du solltest mal nach die deutsche > debian-user-german@lists.debian.org Liste mailen. :) Siehe: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ > > Die Liste wohin du jetzt g

Re: Tar help

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 09:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:23:13AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> What version of tar? 1.14 is known to be busted, 1.13-19 and 1.13-25 >> are > >Ouch. How busted? It seems to be the one in stable. Are all my > backups vapour? > I could

Re: Tar help

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:23:13AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > What version of tar? 1.14 is known to be busted, 1.13-19 and 1.13-25 are Ouch. How busted? It seems to be the one in stable. Are all my backups vapour? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Tar help

On Monday 26 December 2005 19:19, Marco wrote: >Hi all, > >I write a file on DAT with this command: > >tar -rf /dev/st0 /backup/* >> /file.log > >How to check that the file is write correctly on DAT? > >I have found on the tar manual, -W option, but this option >work correctly with my DAT (HP DAT 7

Re: tar: --delete macht tar-Archiv korrupt

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:51:59PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Mache ich was falsch? Ja: du solltest mal nach die deutsche debian-user-german@lists.debian.org Liste mailen. :) Siehe: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ Die Liste wohin du jetzt gesendet hast, ist eine englische Liste.

Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

Update - Thanks for all the good input from everyone. Nice to know you are all there in time of need (even if we couldn't solve the problem from the software side). I swapped out the mobo, went from an AOpen MX46VG(E) to an AOpen AX4SPE-UN. Same CPU, RAM, NIC, SCSI, DAT - went from on board vi

RE: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

27 September 2005 2:28pm > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2 > > > > > > you're not hitting the 2Gb limit (with some tar) are you? > > > > Nope... while trying to debug the problem, I'

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