Tar oddity...

[DB]

On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: Tar oddity...
> From:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
> Date:
> Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100
>
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> 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