After reading some newsgroups, i think it is more a sort of documentation bug: In my example I've cancelled the extraction via CTRL-C because the archive is really big (6GB). It should be mentioned somewhere, that tar does restore symlinks (on OTHER mount-points) _AFTER_ the archive is extracted. As long as the operation runs the affected symlinks are stored as 0-byte files on the filessystem.
If the operation is cancelled or tar encounters an error, the files are not converted. This should be mentioned somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
