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Re: cpio truncating inode number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Fri Nov 20 14:16:13 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:12:29 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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James Baxter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using cpio to back up to a tape. On some files I get a message after
> the file name that says truncating inode number. The files seems to go the
> tape okay and I can read it back out and it seems okay. Can some one tell me
> what is going on? I hate errors I do not understand.
You won't have that problem with GNU/Linux tar.
If you want to use cpio, you also won't have the problem if you use a
cpio format that supports larger inode numbers. Check man cpio
under --format=format and -H format.
It is possible the problem is due to your destination filesystem
simply not having enough inodes to go as high as cpio is asking.
Try # df -i to see the largest inode number each of your
filesystems can support.
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Jan Carlson
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