On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:35:48 -0700 JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. > No problems. > The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so > they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file names > and directory names, like > Barrè > Mächter > among others. > > So I tarred out the whole directory into a tar file. > Later I moved that tar file to another mounted partition. > I cd'ed to the mounted partition and tried to untar it: > tar xpvf my-tar-ball.tar > > For every file in the tarball, tar outputs the message > <.....long.......file........name>: No such file or directory. > > Any clues why this is happening? What filesystem type is the directory you are untarring it on? Is it by change a fat/vfat or the like? It may well not be able to handle utf8 encoded filenames. kevin
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