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You seem to be writing the tarfile to the same filesystem you're tarring.
This might cause a problem, but I don't see how it would cause what
you're describing.

In article <paris-0901021008260001@0036.psp.ucl.ac.be>, "B. Paris"
<paris@ipsp.ucl.ac.be> wrote:

> I use i386 redhat7.1 with kernel 2.4.14.
> 
> I don't understand this tar problems, any help would be appreciated:
> 
> - I make a tar archive of the exclusive root partition in a file on a
> different filesystem  (mounted on /mnt/diskC) :
> 
> % tar cplf /mnt/diskC/aa.tar /
> 
> 
> - When I make
> 
> % cd /mnt/diskC ; tar xf aa.tar
> 
> I get some errors like
> tar: /bin/gzip: Cannot link to bin/gzip: Invalid cross-device link tar:
> bin/gunzip: Cannot link to bin/gunzip: Invalid cross-device link tar:
> sbin/dosfsck: Cannot link to sbin/dosfsck: Invalid cross-device link
> tar: sbin/mkdosfs: Cannot link to sbin/mkdosfs: Invalid cross-device
> link
> 
> This is curious as - for example - /bin/gzip is not a link but a real
> file. Furthermore, where could it be a cross-device problem there ??
> 
> Bernard Paris
> Universite Catholique de Louvain
> PSP - iPSP