David Lloyd wrote:
>
> Chris!
>
> > Why does if=<some device> work and if=<some file> does not? Is this
> > because I have an ext2 filesystem on the disk and copied the file with
> > cp?
>
> If it's a file on an ext2 system, just use tar directly:
>
> tar -xzvf the_file
>
This does not work, because the file has the 32k header at the start.
What I am trying is
dd if=/scsi/DynaMo/linux/20001212/bacchus._usr_src.1 bs=32k skip=1 |
zcat | tar -tf -
but I get
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
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Regards
Chris Karakas
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