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From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tar: dev/rwd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped Date: 24 Jun 1997 20:11:21 GMT Organization: CICDO Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5op9l9$b77@baygull.rtd.com> References: <33B0261F.167EB0E7@journyx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.cc.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.he.net!gridnntp1!summer.Opus1.COM!rtd.com!dgy Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43439 In article <33B0261F.167EB0E7@journyx.com>, Curt Finch <curt@journyx.com> wrote: >tar: dev/rwd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped >tar: dev/wd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped >tar: dev/rwd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped >tar: dev/wd1s4: minor number too large; not dumped >tar: dev/rwd1s4: minor number too large; not dumped >... > >why is this happenning and should i care? This appears to be something inherent in the tar used in FBSD. (since FBSD has very wide device minor numbers). Should you care? Well, strictly speaking, if you want to be able to recreate an entire filesystem -- including all of the /dev entries -- from a tarball, then I guess this is an issue. Otherwise, it should only affect /dev entries and you could always recreate them using /dev/MAKEDEV I'd prefer a fix to tar... --don