$ tar -rf no_tar_file dir tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
But it appends to ... (no_tar_file was > 512 bytes) If it's < 512 bytes, it will no msg appear and append to 10K of 0x0 $ tar -uf no_tar_file dir ### the same like above, exceept for the small file, it gets data. -- tar -cf some.tar dir -V "/" tar -tvf some.tar tarr: Removing leading `/' from member names tar -xvf some.tar tarr: Removing leading `/' from member names it's only the volume ;-)) Cheers Thomas
