From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 15:56:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B8A16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:56:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (rtfm.spawar.navy.mil [198.253.71.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D2C43D31 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:56:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Received: from slaughters.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2CNskxi001021; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:54:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Message-ID: <40524DC6.6050306@slaughters.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:54:46 -0800 From: lee slaughter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Johnson References: <4050D554.9090102@slaughters.com> <447jxqde1l.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4051344E.2070304@slaughters.com> <200403120001.24456.bob89@bobj.org> In-Reply-To: <200403120001.24456.bob89@bobj.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: incorrect super block X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: lee@slaughters.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:56:21 -0000 > > >Example of a test of this method (running burncd at low speed to make >sure tar+gzip can keep up): > >=== ># tar -czf - temp/* | burncd -f /dev/acd0c -s 2 data - fixate >next writeable LBA 0 >writing from stdin >written this track 3760 KB total 3760 KB >fixating CD, please wait.. ># ># mkdir temptemp ># cd temptemp ># tar -xzf /dev/acd0c > >gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored >tar: Child returned status 2 >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ># >=== > thanks. i tried that exactly. i still get unexpected eof, whether i pipe tar to burncd or just burncd the tar.gz file, i get similar errors: gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now >All of the unpacked files were identical to the originals according to >diff. The error message seems to indicate that tar pads blocks at the >ends of files with characters that confuse gzip. > >I also did a test that produced 148 MB of tar.gz file, and it unpacked >fine (with the same error message). > > maybe it's gzip. i've got 1.2.4 i'll try tar alone and see what happens. thanks, Bob. lee