From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTi9e-0008D6-9D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:38:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34D23E034B; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:38:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9E3E034B for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:38:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so136301eye.10 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:38:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=yXv8IlYYTlPMQiV9WmQuU081e2lFEIkIklne9HInpI0=; b=tZyIUfq360J6WeO70Of7pBmYi+OU5G6AX09gd4Z5rSO+EtFHfwkKEs++DkyudBjVAX krkvchdPOCrDq7TXmPHnEY8tAlEyI/qd8q95mRqemiOA6HdryQn3wSumGAyj86bDO6Ui fPZaXXpzyoJNGkNXZmA5oKhQvsu9KZ9sqEmI0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=sjXKBDGTMxiuCDTlxKPgTwsWdnwhr6XfK1n0DSK0pCK8EhXSUMF+sF9TRxgq4BxcUc Qj/emqVYg/EoUKZ1xnM930xU+z0R7cP6m257DOemIjl4ESYO5eNaACc3/ZYXb6O90TTX 8F61zcnb05KNmHeGLuNVL5B3ydBBjWwl1I+TU= Received: by 10.67.123.8 with SMTP id a8mr1135749ugn.74.1233517130199; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:38:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 30sm4532207ugf.13.2009.02.01.11.38.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:38:49 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] STAR options have me confused Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 19:38:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2543766.f8WL2WWVhZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200902011938.47320.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 510f244d-2ad6-4537-b9e1-cc800ace081b X-Archives-Hash: 9f3ef5890853104fefc9df3b7598d946 --nextPart2543766.f8WL2WWVhZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi All, I do not seem to be able to run star with the correct options despite some= =20 experimenting ... and was hoping you could correct my errors. I seem to have done this successfully in the past, but I am getting=20 inappropriate results this time round. This is the fs I am trying to back= =20 up: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D # ls -la /media/hda5 total 208 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 1 12:56 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 0 Feb 1 11:45 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 25 04:02 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 data drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 00:37 dev drwxr-xr-x 82 root root 12288 Feb 1 08:43 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 initrd drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jan 31 04:02 lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Nov 18 19:35 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 1 07:55 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 23 10:46 misc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 proc drwxr-x--- 6 root root 4096 Jan 3 05:55 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Nov 23 04:02 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 00:37 selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 19:37 sys drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Feb 1 08:43 tmp drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Nov 19 00:38 usr drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 19 00:43 var =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The fs is shown to be 1.1G large: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D # df -h =46ilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on =2E.. /dev/hda5 5.8G 1.1G 4.5G 20% /media/hda5 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D I want to save the backup on a USB drive on /media/sda1. Therefore I ran s= tar=20 as root like this: # cd /dev/sda1 # star -xattr -H=3Dexustar -c -f hda5_root1.star /media/hda5 -C /media/sda1 After a lot of messages like these: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr=20 for '/media/hda5/usr/sbin/dumpfilter'. star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr=20 for '/media/hda5/usr/sbin/ethtool'. star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr=20 for '/media/hda5/usr/sbin/traceroute6'. star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr for '/media/hda5/usr/tmp'. star: No such file or directory. Cannot listxattr=20 for '/media/hda5/usr/share/firstboot/modules/rootpassword.py'. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =2E.. it eventually completes. What puzzles me is the size of the star arc= hive,=20 which compared to a vanilla tar archive is massive: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D # ls -la /media/sda1 total 17294256 drwxr-xr-x 2 knoppix knoppix 4096 Feb 1 13:01 . drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 0 Feb 1 11:45 .. =2Drw-r--r-- 1 root root 932474880 Dec 6 13:50 hda5_root.star =2Drw-r--r-- 1 root root 867123200 Dec 6 13:26 hda5_root.tar =2Drw-r--r-- 1 root root 14486097920 Feb 1 13:13 hda5_root1.star =2Drw-r--r-- 1 root root 940288000 Feb 1 10:42 hda5_root1.tar =2E.. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Is this difference in size between the hda5_root1.tar and hda5_root1.star=20 expected? I also show above the previous back up I did as a comparison=20 (although I cannot recall exactly what options I chose to run star with). =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2543766.f8WL2WWVhZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkmF+kcACgkQ5Fp0QerLYPcczgCgjV+iRI+OJaPHzbMdyi65XxjM nKwAoMAF70wm9+kr6KoD5RjNikeq3bNo =gVL/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2543766.f8WL2WWVhZ--