X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <4B9696F3.70004@cygwin.com> References: <20100304094847.GZ17293@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100304114902.GC7980@calimero.vinschen.de> <4B9696F3.70004@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4A05CDB7-413E-4920-989F-E9470BCBE658@von-campe.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Alfred von Campe Subject: Re: Strange symlink behaviour Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:36:35 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 9, 2010, at 13:44, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > 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. Alfred -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple