Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:25:35 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "David A. Richards" <dave@ns1.richcon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar extraction shooting itself in foot Message-ID: <199902130125.TAA32718@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "David A. Richards" <dave@ns1.richcon.com> of "Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:49:28 MST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990212104258.16184A-100000@ns1.richcon.com>
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"David A. Richards" writes: > 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, the > n gives up when it says "Skipping to next file header...". GNU tar has had similar problems in the past. You can try try GNU tar 1.12 in the ports at /usr/ports/sysutils/gtar. I'd give pax(1) a chance at it first. "pax -r -f filename.tar" should be essentially the same as "tar -x -f filename.tar" IMHO: 200MB isn't a large tar file. Unless you had to type it yourself. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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