On 12/18/05, TuxGirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a gzipped tarball that I created on my box when i was running > > > Linux, and I burned it, along with some other files, onto a dvd. I'm > > > now trying to extract the tarball, but it appears that it must be over > > > some sort of filesystem limit or something. None of the commands that > > > I have tried seem to like the file. Each of them gives the same > > > > [snip] > > > > > I'm fairly certain that the tarball is fine, because it worked fine on > > > my server last week, when i opened it up there... > > > > Might want try a different implementation of tar then.... > > cd /usr/ports/archivers; make search name="tar"| more > > I will try this, however, when I mentioned that other commands were > also not playing nicely with the file, I was referring to commands > such as cp, mv, and ls. I'll see if another tar command will work, > though. thanks for the reply! > ~Erin >
There is nothing wrong with tar and large files, it's synonymous with what tar is used for. I think your problem is just a Linux tar to FreeBSD tar quirk. I had no problems with the 3.3GB testfile I made for tar and gzip to play with: > uname -a FreeBSD spectra.intranet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 11 02:56:58 CST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/Info-Matic i386 > cat /dev/random > testfile > ls -al testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton 3526029312 Dec 18 22:12 testfile > md5 testfile MD5 (testfile) = 83e574c15a7daf44f063d140d3577630 > tar -czf testfile.tar.gz testfile > ls -al testfile* -rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton 3526029312 Dec 18 22:12 testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton 3527105097 Dec 18 22:32 testfile.tar.gz > rm testfile; tar -xf testfile.tar.gz; md5 testfile MD5 (testfile) = 83e574c15a7daf44f063d140d3577630 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
