Jean-Paul Smeets wrote:
echo Test > test.txt # Put file in twice tar -cvf test.tar test.txt test.txt tar -Uxvf test.tarI see the file is put in once normally and once as a hardlink. However extraction fails.
I don't see a problem here. It's *supposed* to fail: you told 'tar' to remove then file and then to link from it.
Presumably this is derived from some larger use case; it'd be nice to know what that use case is.
