At 10:45 AM 5/19/2002 +0200, Joachim Breuer wrote: >Lloyd Duhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That would be wonderful, if there is a way to do that. I am not > > personally aware of a way. I would be sufficiently happy to just > > extract a few files from the archive, that is my primary goal at this > > time. If anyone knows of any way, no matter how time or hardware > > consuming it is, please let me know. > > > > At 09:13 AM 5/16/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >> I'm not that experienced with TAR and GZIP, but it may be possible > >> to TAR/GZIP you 6GB file into a series of smaller files that DO > >> transfer correctly. > >> > >>The file that this data resides in is 5.6 GB, a .tgz file. when I try to > >>perform any operation on the file, I get the error "Operation Not > >>Permitted" or similar. the most expressive error message was from lsattr: > >>lsattr: Operation not permitted While reading flags on > >>/Raid/Backup.cp1/cp1/2002_Mar/03.Full.tgz > >>file returns: > >>/Raid/Backup.cp1/cp1/2002_Mar/03.Full.tgz: can't stat > >>`/Raid/Backup.cp1/cp1/2002_Mar/03.Full.tgz' (Value too large for defined > >>data type). > >Hm - what I want to say rather pertains to reading the file at all, >not necessarily splitting it. > >The general consensus seems to be that it is some kind of 'large file' >problem, so one viable alternative might be to 'hide' the file size >from the programs working on it, using pipes. > >What does > cat 03.Full.tgz | tar tvzf - >do? Is there an error message?
[root@orion home]# cat 24.Full.tgz | tar tvzf - cat: 24.Full.tgz: Operation not permitted gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [root@orion home]# >If yes, what does > cat 03.Full.tgz > /dev/null >do? Is there still an error message? If yes, it would appear that you >cannot read the file at all for whatever reason - what exactly is the >system you're working on like? (Distribution/Release, Kernel Version) [root@orion home]# cat 24.Full.tgz > /dev/null cat: 24.Full.tgz: Operation not permitted [root@orion home]# [root@orion home]# cat /etc/issue Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) Kernel \r on an \m [root@orion home]# uname -a Linux orion.crazyprotocol.com 2.4.7-10smp #1 SMP Thu Sep 6 17:09:31 EDT 2001 i686 unknown I will provide you with the ver_linux answer shortly, I'm experiencing a lot of slowness to the RedHat FTP server today, and don't have the RedHat kernel sources lying around anywhere. >Please cut&paste ver_linux's output along with all error messages from >the commands above, perhaps that sheds a little more light on the >matter. Coming Next... Lloyd _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
