Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:53:07 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: TuxGirl <tuxgirl@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball Message-ID: <ef10de9a0512182053v7d1d6871jc2aefbb59e8e9ea5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6e4453640512181948y47c6578fu153c11c2256ac56e@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e4453640512181858qdcf8e2ay640326713dee89be@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0512181944j65dacc27t92ad253581e1019a@mail.gmail.com> <6e4453640512181948y47c6578fu153c11c2256ac56e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/18/05, TuxGirl <tuxgirl@gmail.com> 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
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