Re: tar is behaving strange

Nived Gopalan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.trustix.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 21:48, Ariën Huisken wrote:
> It seems suddenly tar isn't listening to the -l flag anymore.
> 
>  From the man page:
> -l, --one-file-system
>                stay in local file system when creating an archive
> 

>From tar 1.16, the -l option is an alias of --check-links option.

> --one-file-system is working, but I have used -l in sooo many  
> backupscripts and they are all doing strange things now when backing  
> up the / filesystem.

I'm sorry that the update has caused so much inconvenience.

- Nived.

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