Hi, After creating a tar file with a volume label, `tar -V everything -cf foo.tar .', I can use --delete to remove items, e.g. to create a delta against an earlier tar file, but how do I modify the volume label to reflect the tar file no longer contains everything?
Doing `--delete -V something' doesn't work because tar takes that to mean `check the existing volume label matches the one given'. I can create a second tar file, `tar -V something -cf bar.tar dummyfile', and then append foo.tar, with -A, to bar.tar but that results in two volume labels. Does this matter or will tar only ever think of a volume label that appears as the first item as the real one? And is there any way to create a tar file with nothing but the volume label, i.e. remove the need for dummyfile above? Thanks, Ralph. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
