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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 12:02:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
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Subject: Re: cpio truncating inode numbers?
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On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> Hi,
> Does anyone know what this message means in cpio,
> 
>  cpio: xxxxx filename being backed up : truncating inode number
> 
> 
> It this a disaster, or do I ignor it?  tar seems to work ok, but
> not cpio, if that is acutally an error.

I would like a definitive on this too - although I have test restored
files that produced this error and it didnt look like it was a problem.