<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 12/19/2009 03:27 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-list-request@redhat.com">fedora-list-request@redhat.com</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20091219022710.4F1D161BAA0@hormel.redhat.com" type="cite"> <table class="header-part1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div class="headerdisplayname" style="display: inline;">Subject: </div> Re: Tar oddity...</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="headerdisplayname" style="display: inline;">From: </div> Chris <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:racerx@makeworld.com"><racerx@makeworld.com></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="headerdisplayname" style="display: inline;">Date: </div> Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:47 -0600</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table class="header-part2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div class="headerdisplayname" style="display: inline;">To: </div> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="moz-text-plain" wrap="true" graphical-quote="true" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 12px;" lang="x-unicode"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:26 +0100 DB <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Freddog_de@yahoo.co.uk"><Freddog_de@yahoo.co.uk></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <pre wrap="">> On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM, <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-list-request@redhat.com">fedora-list-request@redhat.com</a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <pre wrap="">> > Subject: > > Re: Tar oddity... > > From: > > Ralf Corsepius <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rc040203@freenet.de"><rc040203@freenet.de></a> > > Date: > > Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100 > > > > To: > > "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." > > <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com"><fedora-list@redhat.com></a> > > > > > > On 12/17/2009 11:51 PM, DB wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <pre wrap="">> >> 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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">> > > > Please show us the actual error message. You are not providing > > sufficient details to be able to help. > > > > Ralf > > </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">> 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 > </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">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. <div class="moz-txt-sig">-- Best regards, Chris </div></pre> </div> </blockquote> 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 </body> </html>