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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk>
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Subject: Re: Hmmmm!  New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 01:42:37 -0700 (PDT)
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> cpio: stand/date not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> cpio: stand/dd not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> cpio: stand/echo not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> cpio: stand/ed not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> cpio: stand/expr not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> cpio: stand/grep not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> 
> And so on.  It results in a root.flp image that's only 512 bytes long.. :-(
> 
> Building the root.flp in /usr/src/release/Makefile *used* to work, but
> now this.  Some recent change in current?  I'm building a 2.2 snapshot
> just for my own use..

I think Bruce added this warning.

Bruce, that shouldn't apply to a "cpio -dump" command should it ?

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