Re: gunzip and Unexpected EOF

2005-06-17 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Am Donnerstag, den 16.06.2005, 07:59 -0500 schrieb Martin McCormick: > tar zxf otherfilesystem/root.tar.gz, things seemed to start for a > while and then disaster!!! > > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > tar: Read 4489 bytes from /mnt/root.tar.gz Some days ago I had a similar problem. tar

Re: gunzip and Unexpected EOF

2005-06-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:35:55AM +0200, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:59:09AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > > tar: Read 4489 bytes from /mnt/root.tar.gz > > > > Apparently a special file or something in / makes gzip stop >

Re: gunzip and Unexpected EOF

2005-06-16 Thread Martin McCormick
Almut Behrens writes: >I'm afraid your tarball got corrupted... In that case - I'm sorry to >say - you're almost certainly outta luck. After creating a tar.gz >file, the _whole_ tarfile has been piped through gzip, so if any part >of the file gets corrupted afterwards (however tiny - a single bit

Re: gunzip and Unexpected EOF

2005-06-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:59:09AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > tar: Read 4489 bytes from /mnt/root.tar.gz > > Apparently a special file or something in / makes gzip stop > before decompressing most of the 900 MB file. Is there any way to > cause

gunzip and Unexpected EOF

2005-06-16 Thread Martin McCormick
before rebuilding a system after an upgrade that went terribly wrong, I did the following in order to save kernel sources and configuration files: tar cf - . |gzip >../otherfilesystem/root.tar.gz This worked fine on the home file system and I recovered all the /home files but when I went