From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 8:27: 4 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 08:27:02 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34FF837B404 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:27:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f03GQn916835; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:26:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:26:48 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Mike Meyer Cc: Chih-Chang Hsieh , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gzip & bzip2 with large file Message-ID: <20010103102648.B20220@dan.emsphone.com> References: <5794@toto.iv> <14931.20159.470905.181913@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.13i In-Reply-To: <14931.20159.470905.181913@guru.mired.org>; from "Mike Meyer" on Wed Jan 3 10:09:35 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: dan@dan.emsphone.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 03), Mike Meyer said: > 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? > > Last time I encountered this kind of thing, the problem was that tar > couldn't deal with archives bigger than 2GB. Until tar in the base system gets updated, you can install the latest version from the ports tree, which will work on files over 2gb, and has a working incremental mode. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message