Hi,

try 

#cpio -idmv < filename.cpio

after executing, it will extract all contents from the archive.

thanks.

melvin

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 09:46, Marvin Pascual wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I downloaded a file with an extension of .cpio.gz.  So what I did was to
> extract first the gunzip by:
> 
> $ gunzip -d filename.cpio.gz
> 
> Now, the result was already "filename.cpio" file.  As far as I
> understand the CPIO command, the right command to extract .cpio files
> should be:
> 
> # cpio -idmv filename.cpio
> 
> My problem is, I don't know if it's running/working correctly because it
> seems that it's hanging(?).  I execute that command at around 9:01AM
> today and until now it's already 9:45AM and it's still hanging(?).
> 
> I also checked my top command for that process and I got this result:
> 
>  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>  5682 root       9   0   336  336   276 S     0.0  0.2   0:00 cpio
> 
> BTW, the filesize of this file is 553239173.
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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