I don't have multiple partitions in /lib, but I guess that since tar spits
the error out, when I do a full extract, I can capture the errors and deal
with them individually.
Thanks,
At 10:16 PM 09/04/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Do you have multiple partitions in there? (ie. the /lib directory is on
>one partition and if you have something mounted there it's on another.. or
>you might have a /lib partition and a /lib/modules one)
>
>On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, M. Neidorff wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm about to tar my directory tree, repartition (include a new drive) and
> > then restore. Being careful (TM) I used tar to make an archive of the
> /lib
> > tree and then extracted the directory tree to a new partition. I thought
> > that would give me a good sampling of what I was in store for. I found 2
> > things:
> >
> > First, links to non-existent files show up as broken (of course). I'll
> > have to watch for these after the extraction is finished. Second, while
> > doing the extraction, I got the following error:
> >
> > #tar -xzf lib.tgz
> > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> > tar: lib/ld.so: Cannot link to `/lib/ld.so.1.9.5': Invalid cross-device
> link
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> > What does the error "Invalid cross-device link" mean? I understand the
> > rest of the tar messages.
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