From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 9:49:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0179337B416 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:49:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAQHnhw63189; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:49:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:49:43 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: =?IBM437?Q?S=F8ren?= Neigaard Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difference between Linux and Unix tar? Message-ID: <20011126174943.GA93514@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1006796532.2917.1.camel@lapdancer.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1006796532.2917.1.camel@lapdancer.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 In the last episode (Nov 26), Søren Neigaard said: > Sometimes when I pack a tar from a Linux box and unpack it on a Unix > (Compaq Tru64) box I get this eror: tar: ././@LongLink : Unknown > filetype > > What is this? The official tar format cannot store symlinks with very large paths; gnu tar uses a special format to store them correctly, but Tru64 tar doesn't know about it. You'll have to build gnu tar on the Tru64 box if you want to extract those tarfiles completely. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message