On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 01:11:35PM +0000, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> > > I did a dump to the holding disk, without a tape mounted, to get the
> > > image. I then stripped of the first 32k bytes to lose the tape header,
> > > and tried to untar the rest. That gave a corrupt file error in the
> > > failing image, but a valid output on non-failing images. I conclude that
> > > it is the dump that's going wrong before it gets to the taper.
> >
> > Seems reasonable. Did you also use the "z" option (if appropriate) when
> > untar'ing? What did the file cmd say about the archive file after
> > stripping?
> >
> The archive wasn't compressed. Don't understand what you mean by the file
> cmd, sorry.
A command named "file".
$ file /etc
/etc: directory
$ file x p.tgz pass.tar aa
x: empty file
p.tgz: gzip compressed data - deflate method
pass.tar: USTAR tar archive
aa: ascii text
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