Josef Wolf wrote:

I get from gnutar the following error messages:

  ? gtar: ./media/floppy: Cannot savedir: No medium found
  ? gtar: ./media/floppy: Warning: Cannot savedir: No medium found

...

The /media directory is handled by an automounter, hence the error message.

Strange it gives any error!  Only for floppy and not for e.g. cdrom??

Just curious, what kind of automounter is that?

In my environment (CentOS4) the /media is handled by hald (and
fstab updated by fstab-sync), and there is no such problem.


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