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From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar: dev/rwd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped
Date: 24 Jun 1997 20:11:21 GMT
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In article <33B0261F.167EB0E7@journyx.com>,
Curt Finch  <curt@journyx.com> wrote:
>tar: dev/rwd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped
>tar: dev/wd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped
>tar: dev/rwd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped
>tar: dev/wd1s4: minor number too large; not dumped
>tar: dev/rwd1s4: minor number too large; not dumped
>...
>
>why is this happenning and should i care?

This appears to be something inherent in the tar used in FBSD.
(since FBSD has very wide device minor numbers).  Should you care?
Well, strictly speaking, if you want to be able to recreate an
entire filesystem -- including all of the /dev entries -- from
a tarball, then I guess this is an issue.  Otherwise, it should
only affect /dev entries and you could always recreate them
using /dev/MAKEDEV

I'd prefer a fix to tar...

--don