From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 17:25:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07170 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:25:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07162 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt4-208-166-127-248.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.166.127.248]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA29474; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:25:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA32718; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:25:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199902130125.TAA32718@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "David A. Richards" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: tar extraction shooting itself in foot In-reply-to: Message from "David A. Richards" of "Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:49:28 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:25:35 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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