On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:35:55AM +0200, Almut Behrens wrote: > 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...
I've always thought that some kind of cryptographic technique should be able to recover data after a gzip corruption. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
