I ran into the following problem with sparse files and pax format with GNU tar:
$ cat /etc/motd Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic Patch October 2001 $ dd if=/etc/motd of=/var/tmp/big bs=1024k seek=8192 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 59 bytes (59 B) copied, 0.00058411 seconds, 101 kB/s $ ls -l /var/tmp/big -rw-rw-r-- 1 eggert faculty 8589934651 2005-06-21 21:41 /var/tmp/big $ tar -S -H pax -cf big.tar /var/tmp/big tar: Removing leading `/' from member names $ ls -l big.tar -rw-rw-r-- 1 eggert faculty 10240 2005-06-21 21:04 big.tar $ tar tvf big.tar -rw-rw-r-- eggert/faculty 8589934651 2005-06-21 20:41:48 var/tmp/big tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now This problem occurs both with tar 1.15.1 and with CVS tar. _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
