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On Mar 9, 2010, at 13:44, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:Actually, if the file system does not support hard links, a tar file that contains them doesn't properly extract at all, it will rather report errors for those files.
On 3/9/2010 10:11 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote:The solution was to use hard links in the tar file (which doesn't use up
any more space), and when it was untar'ed on Windows, everything worked^ On NTFS partitions. It will on any kind of FAT partition though.
I meant that it didn't take more space inside the tar file. I don't mind if it takes twice the disk space once extracted.
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