Is this usage of "tar" wrong?

I try to use tar under QNX 6.2.1 like this:
#tar -cvf home.tar /home
then by ls, everything seems ok:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 14151680 home.tar
But if I test this tar file as followed:
#tar -xv home.tar
or
#tar -t home.tar
then nothing will happen.What’s the problem? Could anyone help me? Thanks a
lot!

johnsonyoung wrote:

I try to use tar under QNX 6.2.1 like this:
#tar -cvf home.tar /home
then by ls, everything seems ok:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 14151680 home.tar
But if I test this tar file as followed:
#tar -xv home.tar
or
#tar -t home.tar
then nothing will happen.What’s the problem? Could anyone help me? Thanks a
lot!


Try:

tar -tvf home.tar

Rennie