From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 13:53:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA2637B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailav.tor1.inquent.com (mail.inquent.com [216.6.14.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF9443E42 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad.morland@inquent.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailav.tor1.inquent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B0DC1025A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from downtown (unknown [10.0.2.91]) by mailav.tor1.inquent.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E7D2D1024D for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <03ac01c26f0c$7d8d7b30$5b02000a@downtown> From: "Chad Morland" To: Subject: Strange tar problem Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:51:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to backup some files to tape using "tar -cpf /dev/nsa0 /backup". Once everything is done, I use "tar -tv" to show me the details of the files on the tape. Here is what I get: drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Sep 29 11:27 2002 vnt/vnt21.nj2/ -rw-r--r-- root/wheel -747272192 Sep 29 15:59 2002 vnt/vnt21.nj2/vnt20.nj2-08282002_Full.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Sep 29 16:27 2002 vnt/vnt22.nj2/ -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 692824064 Sep 29 21:23 2002 vnt/vnt22.nj2/vnt22.nj2-09252002_Full.tar.gz Now, if I do an "ls -la /backup/vnt/vnt22.nj2/vnt22.nj2-09252002_Full.tar.gz" I get this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4987791360 Sep 29 21:23 /backup/vnt/vnt22.nj2/vnt22.nj2-09252002_Full.tar.gz As you can see I am getting some pretty strange results from tar. Can someone please explain why tar is showing a negitive number for one file and only 690M for the other? These are only two examples of many files that this is happening to. -CM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message