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From: Vladimir Tchoukharev <chu@h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi>
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Subject: bin/25620: tar does not handle existing large minor numbers
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>Number:         25620
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       tar does not handle existing large minor numbers
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 08 17:50:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Vladimir Tchoukharev
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

# uname -a
FreeBSD h33.erkki.ton.tut.fi 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Mar  9 01:39:06 EET 2001     root
@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/H33  i386

>Description:

While making a copy of root fs by means of tar, I received:
tar: dev/sa0.ctl: minor number too large; not dumped

>How-To-Repeat:

# ls -l /dev/sa0.ctl
crw-rw----  2 root  wheel   14, 0x20000000  8 ΖΕΧ 23:31 /dev/sa0.ctl
# tar -cf - -C /dev/ . > /dev/null
tar: sa0.ctl: minor number too large; not dumped
 

>Fix:

	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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