From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 04:53:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 9FC8916A41F for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:53:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B930043D45 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:53:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so818909wxc for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:53:07 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=G3EiOdGyxl7JT1Ct1LzZqtSGFDtYa4pIwsSW16HN4iXBjGfmDqyBFRshy4pnV30l/0SHHSiysFpsMYFQMonHbLkT/6bbtoPVNIRNzsFvgUELDW/uwgcu7Q9fR0l3yLOWn81Ek1Av+UKi3ndrPoPdLsp4HUw0R71QHo77rSUTzbU= Received: by 10.70.102.16 with SMTP id z16mr3989726wxb; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.66.9 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:53:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:53:07 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton To: TuxGirl In-Reply-To: <6e4453640512181948y47c6578fu153c11c2256ac56e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <6e4453640512181858qdcf8e2ay640326713dee89be@mail.gmail.com> <6e4453640512181948y47c6578fu153c11c2256ac56e@mail.gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:53:09 -0000 On 12/18/05, TuxGirl wrote: > > > 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 ove= r > > > some sort of filesystem limit or something. None of the commands tha= t > > > 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 o= n > > > 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 > There is nothing wrong with tar and large files, it's synonymous with what tar is used for. I think your problem is just a Linux tar to FreeBSD tar quirk. I had no problems with the 3.3GB testfile I made for tar and gzip to play with: > uname -a FreeBSD spectra.intranet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 11 02:56:58 CST 2005 =20 nbritton@spectra.intranet:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/Info-Matic i386 > cat /dev/random > testfile > ls -al testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton 3526029312 Dec 18 22:12 testfile > md5 testfile MD5 (testfile) =3D 83e574c15a7daf44f063d140d3577630 > tar -czf testfile.tar.gz testfile > ls -al testfile* -rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton 3526029312 Dec 18 22:12 testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton 3527105097 Dec 18 22:32 testfile.tar.gz > rm testfile; tar -xf testfile.tar.gz; md5 testfile MD5 (testfile) =3D 83e574c15a7daf44f063d140d3577630