revious versions. The '--verbose' option used with '--test-label' provides additional diagnostics. Several volume labels may be specified in a command line, e.g.: tar --test-label -f archive 'My volume' 'New volume' 'Test volume' In this case, tar exits with code 0 if any one of the arguments matches the actual volume label. ** --label used with --update The '--label' option can be used with '--update' to prevent accidental update of an archive: tar -rf archive --label 'My volume' . This did not work in previous versions, in spite of what the docs said. ** --record-size and --tape-length (-L) options Usual size suffixes are allowed for these options. For example, -L10k stands for a 10 kilobyte tape length. ** Fix dead loop on extracting existing symlinks with the -k option.