From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 8: 9:38 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 08:09:36 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEA4437B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:09:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3889 invoked by uid 100); 3 Jan 2001 16:09:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14931.20159.470905.181913@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:09:35 -0600 (CST) To: Chih-Chang Hsieh Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip & bzip2 with large file In-Reply-To: <5794@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chih-Chang Hsieh 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. 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