Tar oddity...

[DB]

On 12/19/2009 03:27 AM, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: Tar oddity...
> From:
> Chris <racerx at makeworld.com>
> Date:
> Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:47 -0600
>
> To:
> fedora-list at redhat.com
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:26 +0100
> DB<Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk>  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!
>> >  
>> >  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
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