Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:37:16 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar Ignoring out-of-order file What Does that Mean? Message-ID: <200711051437.lA5EbGPm006630@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Jonathan McKeown writes: > [that was me - I'm glad I was of some help] Most definitely. You've been a tremendous help but I am still stuck and I believe all issues are known except this one. I should know when the unpacking/packing part is working by unpacking the FreeBSD iso image and then repacking it without doing anything at all. This should give me an iso image that is the same size as the good one and probably a byte-for-byte copy of the original. I did as you suggested and here is what happened. First, I created a directory called image and cd'd there. $ ls It's empty as it should be. $ ln -s usr/src/sys sys $ ls -l total 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 martin martin 11 Nov 5 07:44 sys -> usr/src/sys Now, it is time to unpack the iso image. $ tar xf ~/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso tar: Ignoring out-of-order file Darn! Well, Let's see how big an ISO image file it makes anyway. $ mkisofs -l -R -q . >~/tmp/testfile.iso $ ls -l ~/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso ../tmp/testfile.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 martin martin 598476800 Nov 5 07:48 ../tmp/testfile.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 martin martin 601229312 Sep 21 08:57 /home/martin/6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso The original iso image is 2,752512 bytes larger. I bet it's the files that tar doesn't seem to be happy about. Once this hurdle is finally jumped, the rest should be quite normal. If you mount the image on a Linux system and use tar or mkisofs, you get a file that is almost twice the proper size so I think there may be some links that end up as multiple versions of the same files when they should have been symlinks or something else. The image made with FreeBSD's mkisofs and tar utilities is the archive that is 2.5 megs short.
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