On 12/18/2009 05:47 AM, DB wrote:
On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Subject:
Re: Tar oddity...
From:
Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100
To:
"Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
<fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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