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 1LTkWg-00066c-Hd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:10:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D33DE035B; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 22:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from iron01.fraunhofer.de (iron01.fraunhofer.de [153.96.1.54]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C99E035B for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 22:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([195.37.77.164]) by iron01.fraunhofer.de with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 01 Feb 2009 23:10:47 +0100 Received: from EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de (bohr [10.147.9.231]) by pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.13.7/8.13.7) with SMTP id n11MAkkx025283 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:10:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from rigel ([10.147.65.195]) by EXCHSRV.fokus.fraunhofer.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:10:46 +0100 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:10:46 +0100 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] STAR options have me confused Message-ID: <49861de6.jI6EXy0g45AuFVty%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200902011938.47320.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200902011938.47320.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2009 22:10:46.0901 (UTC) FILETIME=[EEEBB250:01C984B9] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a7b10507-93b7-435f-b4f4-f9e774b5337d X-Archives-Hash: 3bb70860426f555f9701a2db152d87b3 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I do not seem to be able to run star with the correct options despite s= ome=20 > experimenting ... and was hoping you could correct my errors. Try the command lines from the example section in the man page ;-) > 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 > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > ... > /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 r= an star=20 > as root like this: > > # cd /dev/sda1 > # star -xattr -H=3Dexustar -c -f hda5_root1.star /media/hda5 -C /media/= sda1 This is a useless command line as -C /media/sda1 is executed after archiv= ing /media/hda5. > 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 There seems to be a problem with xattr support on your system. Unfortunately, Linux allows you not to install a sufficiently complete OS basesystem. Make sure that not only star supports xattrs. > ... it eventually completes. What puzzles me is the size of the star a= rchive,=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 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 932474880 Dec 6 13:50 hda5_root.star > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 867123200 Dec 6 13:26 hda5_root.tar > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14486097920 Feb 1 13:13 hda5_root1.star > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 940288000 Feb 1 10:42 hda5_root1.tar > ... > =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.st= ar=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= ). As I don't know what's in both files, I cannot comment. If you create a tar archive with POSIX.1-2001 extensions, you get at leas= t=20 1kB of additional meta-data per archived file. GNU tar does not support Linux specific extensions... J=F6rg --=20 EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J=F6rg Schilling D-13353 = Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) =20 joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blo= gspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schil= y