Re: tar failure

2017-07-17 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/17/2017 12:55 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Tar does an alphabetical sort of the top level of the directory you're tarring up. No, tar does not do any sorting. It just process the directory entries in the order that readdir(3) returns them. For some filesystems, that will be a sorted list. Fo

Re: tar failure

2017-07-17 Thread Patrick Dupre
== > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 at 7:55 PM > From: "Rick Stevens" > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: tar failure > > On 07/16/2017 11:07 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Thank for the response. >

Re: tar failure

2017-07-17 Thread Rick Stevens
y way to ensure you capture errors. Same thing goes for rsync, cpio, gzip, or virtually any stream-type archiver. Find the "verbose" flag and redirect stdout/stderr to a log file. What was it Reagan said? "Trust, but verify!" >> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 at 7:55 PM >> Fr

Re: tar failure

2017-07-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Jul2017 20:07, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, Thank for the response. I do not know what is the previous error. I am checking the list, but is not going to tell what is the error. I cannot scroll back I was speaking about the logic of the order of the file are taken from the directory, Not a

Re: tar failure

2017-07-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
y 16, 2017 at 7:55 PM > From: "Samuel Sieb" > To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: tar failure > > On 07/16/2017 10:52 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I got: tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > How can I finish the process? >

Re: tar failure

2017-07-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 07/16/2017 10:52 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: I got: tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors How can I finish the process? I do not want to restart the tar, I only would like to tar the rest (directory). It usually doesn't stop at the error, that's why it says "previous errors".

tar failure

2017-07-16 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I got: tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors How can I finish the process? I do not want to restart the tar, I only would like to tar the rest (directory). I do not see the logic that tar uses to create the archive Can I guess this logic? and only tar the missing ? Thank