I have a RedHat Linux 9 on my server. I have a 36GB Hard disk with 2
partitions /dev/sda1 and sda2. When I take a backup using cpio on a
DAT drive I get a message truncating inode as the files are copied.
The files are copies properly and can be retrieved.
What does this message "Truncating inode" mean?

regards
Venu

gcl@vsnl.com (P.Venugopal) wrote in message news:<33f6d97e.0401230254.5924d866@posting.google. com>...
Could you show your command syntax? What's the file extension? cpio is
tricky - it has a lot of options. Furthermore, I've had some problems
due to incompatibilities between unices. It could be that the file is
corrupted. Not that I like cpio...

For what its worth, typically I do something like:

cpio -idmv < lnx_920_disk2.cpio

or

zcat pacote.cpz | cpio -iBvd -H odc

iksrazal

iksrazal@terra.com.br (iksrazal) wrote in message news:<850ed936.0401230834.6a262e97@posting.google. com>...
find . | cpio -ov -O/dev/st0
The error message is coming for all files, and the files are not
corrupted.I doubt if file extension has any significance .
Venu