I am trying to backup some files to tape using "tar -cpf /dev/nsa0 /backup". Once everything is done, I use "tar -tv" to show me the details of the files on the tape. Here is what I get:
drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Sep 29 11:27 2002 vnt/vnt21.nj2/ -rw-r--r-- root/wheel -747272192 Sep 29 15:59 2002 vnt/vnt21.nj2/vnt20.nj2-08282002_Full.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Sep 29 16:27 2002 vnt/vnt22.nj2/ -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 692824064 Sep 29 21:23 2002 vnt/vnt22.nj2/vnt22.nj2-09252002_Full.tar.gz Now, if I do an "ls -la /backup/vnt/vnt22.nj2/vnt22.nj2-09252002_Full.tar.gz" I get this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4987791360 Sep 29 21:23 /backup/vnt/vnt22.nj2/vnt22.nj2-09252002_Full.tar.gz As you can see I am getting some pretty strange results from tar. Can someone please explain why tar is showing a negitive number for one file and only 690M for the other? These are only two examples of many files that this is happening to. -CM To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
