Tar oddity...

[DB]

On 12/21/2009 12:45 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> DB wrote:
>    
>> 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?
>>      
> Run
>
>    md5sum F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz
>
> on both machines.
> If you get two different results, something bad is happening.
>
>    
Ahhhhh that gives 2 entirely different 32-digit numbers....

on the F11 desktop
cee716a79cc7af0ee8f5f2613ca50578

and on the F12 laptop
802d5ea893af6f936e77b81cf00a45fb

Rusult of uname -ar on each:
Desktop
Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.30.9-102.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Dec 3 23:46:37 EST 
2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Laptop
Linux Fedora_Toshi 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Wed Dec 9 11:14:59 EST 
2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Thanks for the suggestion Roberto.....  where to next?????

Dave