From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 09:31:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10353 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:31:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.richcon.com (www.richcon.com [207.174.22.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10346 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:30:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@ns1.richcon.com) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by ns1.richcon.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA16203 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:49:28 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:49:28 -0700 (MST) From: "David A. Richards" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: tar extraction shooting itself in foot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've been using freebsd for 4 years. Today I tried to unpack a large tar file I made last night. It's about 200MB in size. tar can only extract about 500 kb of it though.... This is what I get: ============================================= % tar -xvf var.tar (uncompresses about 40 files) tar: Skipping to next file header... % The problem is it only extracts about 1% of all the files in the archive, then gives up when it says "Skipping to next file header...". Anyone know what's going on with tar? I tried ftp'ing the file to an NT system with Winzip and it extracted all the files in the archive okay... but I don't get to keep permissions that way. Sincerely, ======================================================== David A Richards, CNE, Network Consultant Denver CO Richards Consulting LANs WANs Internet Novell NT Web: http://www.richcon.com E-Mail: mailto:dave@richcon.com Phone: 303.639.5657 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message