Re: CPIO Bug ?

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:01:18PM +0200, Grégoire Fiot wrote:
> We ve got a problem here using cpio: many "troncating inode number" appear
> during the process: cpio -ocv
> Is that a real problem? Does it corrupt files? Well.. what does that mean?
> :-)
> We have looked over everywhere for an answer but we found only questions..
> Thx for your help.

I think the default CPIO format understands only 16-bit inodes. Look
at the -H option. '-H newc' should work better for you.

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albert chin (address@hidden)