Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:48:32 -0700 From: TuxGirl <tuxgirl@gmail.com> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball Message-ID: <6e4453640512181948y47c6578fu153c11c2256ac56e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0512181944j65dacc27t92ad253581e1019a@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e4453640512181858qdcf8e2ay640326713dee89be@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0512181944j65dacc27t92ad253581e1019a@mail.gmail.com>
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> > I have a gzipped tarball that I created on my box when i was running > > Linux, and I burned it, along with some other files, onto a dvd. I'm > > now trying to extract the tarball, but it appears that it must be over > > some sort of filesystem limit or something. None of the commands that > > I have tried seem to like the file. Each of them gives the same > > [snip] > > > I'm fairly certain that the tarball is fine, because it worked fine on > > my server last week, when i opened it up there... > > Might want try a different implementation of tar then.... > cd /usr/ports/archivers; make search name=3D"tar"| more I will try this, however, when I mentioned that other commands were also not playing nicely with the file, I was referring to commands such as cp, mv, and ls. I'll see if another tar command will work, though. thanks for the reply! ~Erin
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