On Thursday 09 April 2009, John Hein wrote:
>John Hein wrote at 08:47 -0600 on Apr  9, 2009:
> > This (snippet below from the gtar NEWS file) was added in 1.21
>
>Woops.  Sorry --no-check-device was added for 1.20.  I've never tested
>it, however.  If you can prove a device number change and use of this
>option is causing the "big incremental" dump problem, let us know
>(start a separate thread).

I thought it was in the version I'm using. :)  I wonder if fedora took that 
back out of the rpms?  In a manner that would not cause an error?  Anyway, 
I've posted a plea to the fedora list for tar-1.21.  And gave them a little 
what for as only I can do it. :)

Is there a way to look at something from the older backups that would prove 
the device numbering change?   I didn't reboot so they should NOT have 
changed.  But had to this morning (after those 2 failed runs) because I locked 
up tight trying to update the radeonhd driver while x was running.  Duh.

And an ls -l /dev/sd* still looks the same, major is 8, minors follow 
precedence as usual.

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