On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:59:09AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > tar: Read 4489 bytes from /mnt/root.tar.gz > > Apparently a special file or something in / makes gzip stop > before decompressing most of the 900 MB file. Is there any way to > cause it to go any farther?
I'm afraid your tarball got corrupted... In that case - I'm sorry to say - you're almost certainly outta luck. After creating a tar.gz file, the _whole_ tarfile has been piped through gzip, so if any part of the file gets corrupted afterwards (however tiny - a single bit is sufficient), the gzip algorithm will not be able to recover any data later in the stream... My personal advice to avoid such desaster in future: use 'afio' instead of tar + gzip. afio compresses each file seperately, so in case of partial corruption if the archive, most of the remaining files can still be recovered... Sorry for the bad news, Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
