[Tfug] Question: tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory

[Nathan Hruby]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Charles R. Kiss
<charles at kissbrothers.com> wrote:
> Most all files were copied into the vfat partition, but a couple whole
> directories and their files weren't, I repeatedly received the error message:
> tar: <files.jpg>: Cannot open: No such file or directory.

Does vfat still enforce 8.3 naming and 256 character pathname limits?
Those would be my first guesses

> Because of the -v option, I was able to do a scrollback, and saw the files.jpg
> were indeed compressed into the .tgz

You can also do 'tar -tvf <TARFILE>'  to examine the manifest of a tar file.

-n
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