On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 07:29 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> um ... i don't see how since there is no discernible difference
> between two hard links that represent the same file. what exactly are
> you trying to do? i get the feeling that this really isn't the
> question you want to be asking.
Hmmm ... perhaps not. This is why I'm asking: I have a nightly cron job
that uses tar to back up my home directory to an external drive. This
job normally runs without complaint. However, a few weeks ago my
internal hard drive started to report problems, and so I swapped it out
for a new one, and restored my old partitions from images (not from the
backups because they don't include every single file, just the important
ones).
Ever since doing that, the nightly cron job reports back:
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets
neither of which it ever did before. So, I'd like to determine what
exactly is different now: I'm concerned that restoring my partitions has
not been 100% successful (although I have experienced no problems
whatsoever). I *thought* that the hard links issue would be the easiest
one to investigate and so chose it first. To the best of my knowledge I
have never created a hard link in my home directory.
So, given that that is my problem, what questions should I be asking?
Best, Darren
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