On 12/19/2009 03:27 AM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote:
Subject:
Re: Tar oddity...
From:
Chris <rac...@makeworld.com>
Date:
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:47 -0600
To:
fedora-list@redhat.com
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:26 +0100
DB<freddog...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM,fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote:
> > Subject:
> > Re: Tar oddity...
> > From:
> > Ralf Corsepius<rc040...@freenet.de>
> > Date:
> > Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100
> >
> > To:
> > "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
> > <fedora-list@redhat.com>
> >
> >
> > On 12/17/2009 11:51 PM, DB wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I've just (re)installed F12 on my laptop,& tried to copy my home
> >> directory (F11) from my desktop using tar.
> >>
> >> The create went OK,& I can do tar tvh on the desktop no probs.
> >> But when I connect the external drive to the laptop, tar tvh says
> >> it's closing because of previous errors; ark refuses to open
> >> the .tar.gz file as it has errors.
> >
> > Please show us the actual error message. You are not providing
> > sufficient details to be able to help.
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> Hi Ralf,
>
> ark puts up a dialog box
> reading the archive "xxxx.tar.gz"
> failed with the error
> 'The archive reading failed with message: Damaged tar archive'
>
> and tar tvf reads 45 entries and then
>
> tar: skipping to next header
> tar: exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
> but doesn't say what previous errors!
>
> TIA
>
> Dave
>
Why not use tar -zxvf xxx.tar.gz unless, its just xxx.tar, then it
would be tar -xvf xxx.tar
Otherwise, perhaps your archive never finished correctly or is
corrupt. it would be interesting to see the command you used to
create the archive.
-- Best regards, Chris
Hi Chris,
The original command was
tar cvzf F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz /home/Dave
and the "problem" is that tar tvh F11*gz lists all the files on the F11
desktop, but when the external HDD is transferred to the F12 laptop, tar
tvh (and ark) give the errors quoted...
The reason I went with tar tvh was (to try) to check the contents of
the file after "open with ark" in Dollphin spat out the errors. I guess
that actually trying to extract the files when the table of contents
fails would not be any more successful?
Thanks
Dave
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