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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: how to make a tarball to install a new fs image ?
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:24:59 -0000

--- In  "j.chitte" <> wrote:
>
> I have an EABI 2.6 kernel and root file hierarchy tested via nfs. I want to 
> commit it to flash.
> 
> I made a tarball of the filesystem with tar -czf and copied it to be 
> accessible as part of the ext3 nfsroot that I'm going to boot.
> 
> I checked the copy with tar -t and did a diff against the original , all OK. 
> However , when I boot via nfs and run tar -tvzf .... on the 7250 it gets 
> though /bin /etc then reports a corruption.
> 
> 
> # tar -tzvf 2.6image -C/mnt/mtd1
> bin/
> bin/ash
> bin/bbconfig
> ...
> etc/resolv.conf
> etc/services
> etc/sysconfig/
> etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0
> tar: corrupted octal value in tar header
> Command exited with non-zero status 1
> 
> 
> I build the tarball on linux x86
> 
> I can't find any doc for creating such an image but anyway it seems odd that 
> it reports clean on x86 but corrupt when tested on arm.
> 
> Can anyone point me at what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> TIA.
>

OK , I found this:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2009-September/070285.html

> If you switch off FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY, then it will fail:

so I reconfigured BB , rebuilt it, remade by nfs image rebuilt the tarball, 
rebooted ... and I still have the same crap.

Anyone know how to fix this? It's driving me up the wall the time I'm having to 
waste on stupid stuff like this. 

TIA



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