On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But > > it shows only to be about 3gb large: > > > > yabba# ls -la pictures.tar > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3317055488 Feb 15 19:03 pictures.tar > > > > Is there any possible way to extract the file? > > It shouldn't be appearing truncated. Are you certain that this size > is incorrect, and the file has a different size when viewed from > another OS?
Yes. Yesterday I tested the archive with "tar tvf" (11gb) in Linux and it tested OK. In FBSD it says "unexpected EOF". If I could i would just boot linux and split the file. But I can nolonger boot linux =/ (migrated to fbsd 5.2 ;). Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
