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Hi,<BR>
I tried to untar using the command tar -xvzmf.<BR>
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The error I got after tar runs for sometime was :<BR>
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<I>tar: Skipping to next header</I><BR>
<I>tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers</I><BR>
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<I>gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error</I><BR>
<I>tar: Child returned status 1</I><BR>
<I>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors</I><BR>
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on doing a fsck.ext3 i get the result as:<BR>
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<I>/dev/sda2: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********</I><BR>
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<I> 15162 inodes used (0.50%)</I><BR>
<I> 84 non-contiguous inodes (0.6%)</I><BR>
<I> # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 1370/52/0</I><BR>
<I> 605645 blocks used (10.05%)</I><BR>
<I> 0 bad blocks</I><BR>
<I> 2 large files</I><BR>
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<I> 11832 regular files</I><BR>
<I> 886 directories</I><BR>
<I> 0 character device files</I><BR>
<I> 0 block device files</I><BR>
<I> 0 fifos</I><BR>
<I>4294967294 links</I><BR>
<I> 2436 symbolic links (2414 fast symbolic links)</I><BR>
<I> 0 sockets</I><BR>
<I>--------</I><BR>
<I> 15150 files</I><BR>
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-<BR>
Ameet<BR>
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On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:07 +0200, Christian Kujau wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, October 24, 2007 11:55, Naxor wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> While I untar a large archive on xfs , ext3 (ver 1.3 and ver 1.4) file</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> systems , on ppc processor and kernel ver 2.6.21 , I get an error. Also</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> sometimes, on ext3 (1.3 and 1.4) the file system goes read-only while</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> untarring.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">can you please post the errors from your syslog, when this happens? Also,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">did you fsck.ext3 your filesystem lately?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Christian.</FONT>
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