Do you have multiple partitions in there? (ie. the /lib directory is on
one partition and if you have something mounted there it's on another.. or
you might have a /lib partition and a /lib/modules one)
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, M. Neidorff wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm about to tar my directory tree, repartition (include a new drive) and
> then restore. Being careful (TM) I used tar to make an archive of the /lib
> tree and then extracted the directory tree to a new partition. I thought
> that would give me a good sampling of what I was in store for. I found 2
> things:
>
> First, links to non-existent files show up as broken (of course). I'll
> have to watch for these after the extraction is finished. Second, while
> doing the extraction, I got the following error:
>
> #tar -xzf lib.tgz
> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> tar: lib/ld.so: Cannot link to `/lib/ld.so.1.9.5': Invalid cross-device link
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> What does the error "Invalid cross-device link" mean? I understand the
> rest of the tar messages.
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Mark
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