Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:09:35 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Chih-Chang Hsieh <cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip & bzip2 with large file Message-ID: <14931.20159.470905.181913@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <5794@toto.iv>
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Chih-Chang Hsieh <cch@cc.kmu.edu.tw> types: > Hi, all. > I have tried to gzip and bzip2 a large file (tar format, size about 3 > GB), it generate .tar.gz and tar.bz2 > successfully. But when I try to gunzip or bunzip2 the compressed file, > it complains > "CRC error" and I can not get the original file. > Has someone encounter this problem too? > > OS: FreeBSD 4.2-Release > H/W: AMD ThunderBird 800, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB HD, and ASUS A7V > Motherboard. Last time I encountered this kind of thing, the problem was that tar couldn't deal with archives bigger than 2GB. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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