Re: Tar oddity...

[DB]

On 12/19/2009 03:27 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: Tar oddity...
> From:
> Chris 
> Date:
> Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:47 -0600
>
> To:
> [e-mail]
>
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:26 +0100
> DB  wrote:
> > > On 12/18/2009 01:23 PM,[e-mail]  wrote:
> > > > > Subject:
> > > > >  Re: Tar oddity...
> > > > >  From:
> > > > >  Ralf Corsepius
> > > > >  Date:
> > > > >  Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:09 +0100
> > > > >
> > > > > To:
> > > > >  "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
> > > > >
> > > > > On 12/17/2009 11:51 PM, DB wrote:
> > > > > > >  Hi All,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  I've just (re)installed F12 on my laptop,&  tried to copy my home
> > > > > > >  directory (F11) from my desktop using tar.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  The create went OK,&  I can do tar tvh on the desktop no probs.
> > > > > > >  But when I connect the external drive to the laptop, tar tvh says
> > > > > > >  it's closing because of previous errors; ark refuses to open
> > > > > > >  the .tar.gz file as it has errors.
> > > > > Please show us the actual error message. You are not providing
> > > > >  sufficient details to be able to help.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ralf
> > >
> > > Hi Ralf,
> > >
> > > ark puts up a dialog box
> > >  reading the archive "xxxx.tar.gz"
> > >  failed with the error
> > >  'The archive reading failed with message: Damaged tar archive'
> > >
> > > and tar tvf reads 45 entries and then
> > >    tar: skipping to next header
> > >    tar: exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> > >
> > > but doesn't say what previous errors!
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > Dave
>
> Why not use tar -zxvf xxx.tar.gz unless, its just xxx.tar, then it
> would be tar -xvf xxx.tar
>
> Otherwise, perhaps your archive never finished correctly or is
> corrupt. it would be interesting to see the command you used to
> create the archive.
>
> -- Best regards, Chris

Hi Chris,

The original command was

tar cvzf F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz /home/Dave

and the "problem" is that tar tvh F11*gz lists all the files on the F11 
desktop, but when the external HDD is transferred to the F12 laptop, tar 
tvh  (and ark) give the errors quoted...

The reason I went with  tar tvh was (to try) to check the contents of 
the file after "open with ark" in Dollphin spat out the errors.  I guess 
that actually trying to extract the files when the table of contents 
fails would not be any more successful?

Thanks

Dave