Tar oddity...

[DB]

On 12/18/2009 07:40 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 12/18/2009 05:47 AM, DB wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>> To:
>>> "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
>>> <fedora-list at 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!
>
> Try "tar tvzf xxx.tar.gz".  The fact it has a ".gz" at the end indicates
> that it's a gzipped tar file so you must specify "z" in the tar command
> line.
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Thanks Rick,

I've been doing
tar tvf F11*.gz on both machines.  Works on the F11 desktop, not on the 
F12 Lappy.

Your tvfz suggestion stops in the same place. :-(

??????

Dave