Juhana Sadeharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > Hello. I have large tar.gz packages in archive DVDs. > What if the file gets corrupted? Is the whole file > useless? For example, what happens if one byte is > altered short after the begin?
This question is not exactly tar-related. Tar does not perform comression/decompression by itself, instead it relies on an external program to perform the task (e.g. for .gz it is gzip). If your compressed archive gets corrupted, you should first try to recover it using appropriate tool (bzip2recover for bzipped files, for example) and then to extract it using tar. In any case, you will have to recover it manually, tar won't do it for you. For more information about possibilities of recovery and available recovery tools, please refer to the documentation for the compression program you use. You may also write to the their corresponding mailing lists, if you have any compression-specific questions. Regards, Sergey
