Support Center > Knowledgebase > DirectAdmin > System Level > FreeBSD: /usr/bin/tar: unrecognized option '--fast-read'
FreeBSD: /usr/bin/tar: unrecognized option '--fast-read'
Found an issue where tar was throwing this error, seemingly because tar wasn't compiled with the --fast-read option (best guess as to the cause):
/usr/bin/tar: unrecognized option '--fast-read'
I've only seen this issue once, but found that /usr/bin/tar was gnutar 1.26 on a FreeBSD 9.2 32-bit box.
The tar binary that we really want is /usr/bin/bsdtar, often pointed to with a symbolic link from tar.
In the case where it wasn't working, /usr/bin/tar was a binary, not a link.
If you don't have libarchive, you'll need it, eg:
pkg_add -r libarchive
Then make sure the new bsdtar exists, and link to it:
cd /usr/bin
ls -la bsdtar
mv tar tar.gnu
ln -s bsdtar tar
Also Read