bob@wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen x4312 dept208) (03/22/91)
In article <1991Mar21.183604.25451@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu writes: > --- >residing on my harddisk. The tar command was humming along quite happily >when I got a read error. The block in which this error was a bad block >on my hard drive. It was allocated to the .BADxxxx files when I installed I am assuming that the tar under minix works like UNIX, I am new to minix and have no experience with its version of tar yet. But I think this is a valid assumption. So, the question is, how did you invoke tar? If you give it the name of a directory, it will recursively descend the directory reading all files, including those beginning with a dot. This would include all the .BADxxxx names as well as .profile, .mailrc or others. If the above is true, the simplest way to get around the problem is to make a subdirectory for bad block files under root (I do not know of the top of my head where these are put by default) and run tar with a list of directory names that do not include the one with the bad block files: tar cf /dev/XXX dirA dirB dirC ... would be the basic command line format. I hope this is useful. Bob McGowan (standard disclaimer, these are my own ...) Product Support, Wyse Technology, San Jose, CA ..!uunet!wyse!bob bob@wyse.com
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (03/22/91)
It is not surprising, but intentional, that .BADXXXX files contain bad blocks. You should move these files to a special directory which you do not backup. C.v.W.