Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:53:32 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2GB limit on gzip? Message-ID: <20010312195330.A82645@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:34:41PM -0600 References: <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com> <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson (dnelson@emsphone.com) wrote:
> If you really mean you're getting "invalid compressed data--length
> mismatch", you can safely ignore it. It's been fixed in the latest
> gzip source, I believe. I've been gzipping files over 4gb for quite a
> while on my 4.2 boxes with no problems.
What I actually mean is
gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
Decompression ceases at this point.
I get a similar failure with bunzip2:
bunzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing.
Input file = fs-dump.gz2, output file = fs-dump
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Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com
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