untaring into ext2fs ./dev/* entries

[Matthias Apitz]

Hello,

I'm using an OpenSource Linux based cellphone. The software is provided
as a tar-archive which must be unpacked into an ext2fs on a microSD;
I do not have any Linux box and want to do this on my FreeBSD
(10-CURRENT) laptop;

I can mount the ext2fs fine and when I say:

# cd /mnt
# gtar --numeric-owner -xpzf shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz 

it gives errors like this example for all special files:

gtar: ./dev/hda7: Cannot utime: Operation not supported
gtar: ./dev/hda7: Cannot change ownership to uid 0, gid 6: Operation not supported
gtar: ./dev/hda7: Cannot change mode to rw-rw----: Operation not supported

in the tar-archive the file looks like this

# gtar tzvf shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz | fgrep ./dev/hda7
brw-rw----  0 root       disk          3,7 Jan  8 23:36 ./dev/hda7

and after unpacking into /mnt it is:

# ls -l dev/hda7
brw-------  1 root  wheel  0x307 Jan 20 11:00 dev/hda7

Which is not what we want.

I've checked the man page of devfs(8), but see no way to solve this.

Any ideas?

	matthias

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