Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:17:38 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Phillip Smith <phillip@3bags.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! Problems with TAR archives? Message-ID: <20030109214738.GN79263@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000f01c2b801$bb637250$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> References: <002401c2b7f2$f7ba5e30$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> <000f01c2b801$bb637250$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia>
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On Thursday, 9 January 2003 at 12:08:29 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: > On January 9, 2003 10:23 AM, Phillip Smith wrote: >>> What does tar t tell you on the FreeBSD side? >> >> tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive. >> tar: Skipping to next file header... >> tar: only read 521 bytes from archive etc.rein.tar >> >> Also, I tried re-creating the problem. Exact same scenario. >> Created a new TAR archive, ftp'd from FreeBSD to Window (not >> specifying a setting), then used 'get' to bring them back to >> FreeBSD and the archives are fine. So, I'm thinking that the >> original archives are corrupt... > > I've tried a few other scenarios and this is what I've discovered... > > - I'm using tar -zcpvf filename.tar.gz targetdir to create the > archive > - using any variation of tar -zxpvf gets the messages I've outlined > above > - same if I gunzip the archive first, then try tar -xpvf z compresses the archive. No wonder you're not having any success without z on the extract. > So I tried on some new tar files, only transfering from BSD to BSD > and found that, for some reason, I'm getting the same error > (e.g. tar with zcpvf and ftp/binary from BSD to BSD). Now I'm > confused. > > So, I repeat the same process without the gzip (tar cpvf and > ftp/binary from BSD to BSD), and presto the archives are fine. I > would assume from this, that I'm doing something wrong with the > gzip? Or that gzip is doing something funny. Possibly. I'm having difficulty getting details here, but if you've found a workaround, great. You can use gzip -t to test the integrity of compressed files. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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