Package: tar Version: 1.15.1dfsg-3 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
About a month ago, I tar-ed a 6GB sparse file (ntfsclone image) with "cjSf" options to get a nice 1.6GB tar.bz2 file. I've no exact information which tar version I used for that, but it was certainly from "testing". Please give hints if this can be determined somehow. Yesterday, that NTFS volume failed and I needed to restore the ntfsclone image from that archive. When extracting it with "-xvjf", it resulted in a only 1.9GB file. Interesting to note is, that the file size continously increased up to 4333572096 bytes, stayed there for some time (while extraction continued) and then finally dropped down to 1997337088 bytes. This was on a ext3fs (but tried with others, too), so I assume this to be a nasty tar bug. Currently, I desperatly trying to recover somehow from this image, so any hint how to extract the entire 6GB file from it, is urgently needed. Regards, JD -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries tar recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
