In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >That was an excellent idea, unfortunately Darxus has already tried >this and it didn't work for him. Perhaps gzip tries to read the whole >file and even though, in your case, the file is truncated it'll do >what it can. In Darxus' case that means it's trying to read past the >2GB limit and that's a no-no under 80x86 based Linux systems. > >However, now knowing that gzip will in fact decompress a file that's >lost it's tail, Darxus could try to write a little C program that calls >truncate() to truncate his file to around 2GB (a little less might be >a good idea) and see what he can do with it.
Just curious: Does one of gunzip < file.gz | tar ... OR cat file.gz | gunzip | tar ... work? My feeling is that the second one (at least) should force gunzip to read the file sequentially, hence there shouldn't be a problem. However, I may have misunderstood something.
