On 12/19/2009 03:27 AM, fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
Subject:
Re: Tar oddity...
From:
Chris <racerx(a)makeworld.com>
Date:
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:47 -0600
To:
fedora-list(a)redhat.com
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:26 +0100
DB<Freddog_de(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM,fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com wrote:
>
>> > > Subject:
>> > > Re: Tar oddity...
>> > > From:
>> > > Ralf Corsepius<rc040203(a)freenet.de>
>> > > Date:
>> > > Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100
>> > >
>> > > To:
>> > > "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
Fedora."
>> > > <fedora-list(a)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