On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 08:24:55PM +0100, Harald Ropinski wrote:
> if I try to do a backup with my iomega ditto 800 with the commandline :
> "find . -print | cpio -ovB > /dev/qft0"
> then the cpio-command prints out the following sequence between the listed
> filenames (for example) :
> "cpio: .kde/share/mimelnk: truncating inode number"
add the -c flag to your cpio commands (both reading and writing tapes),
to use the arbitrary length printable headers, rather than the obsolete
fixed-width fields.
you're backing up a filesystem with i-numbers bigger than the old 16-bit fields
can store. the only problem will be in resolution of hard links on restoring
files, if i recall correctly.
everyone uses the -c format these days, i hope.
