On Nov 2, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Live user wrote: > On 01/11/2012 20:33, Paul Eggert wrote: > > > > Could you give a complete recipe for reproducing the problem? > > > > On 02/11/2012 4:15, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> >> Try using the -n option as well. Most people who have >> problems with -T need to add -n. > > I've tried with -n option as well, and the problem still persists. I'm > creating the following tar archive (I need the -T option because I think that > files must be added in a specific order, not necessarily alphabetical):
I'm curious: Why do you think the order matters? > -------------------------- > > dorian@ubuntu:~/test$ tar -n -cvf gameloft.tar -T gameloft.txt > … > shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin > … > shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin Did you really mean to add the above file twice? There are a bunch of other files that also appear twice in your file list. > hrw-rw-r-- dorian/dorian 0 2012-10-23 07:44 > shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin link > to shared/0/Android/obb/com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftA7HM/imgiab7121.bin The duplication above is what's causing this hardlink entry. (A hardlink entry is just tar's way of avoiding storing a file contents twice.) Tim
