On 12/21/2009 12:45 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
DB wrote:
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?
Run
md5sum F11_Home_Dave_20091217.tar.gz
on both machines. If you get two different results, something bad is happening.
Ahhhhh that gives 2 entirely different 32-digit numbers....
on the F11 desktop cee716a79cc7af0ee8f5f2613ca50578
and on the F12 laptop 802d5ea893af6f936e77b81cf00a45fb
Rusult of uname -ar on each: Desktop Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.30.9-102.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Dec 3 23:46:37 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Laptop Linux Fedora_Toshi 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Wed Dec 9 11:14:59 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Thanks for the suggestion Roberto..... where to next?????
Dave
Are the two files the same size? Did you do the copy via a memory stick? If so, did you 'unmount' the memory stick on the source machine before unplugging it?
Cheers, Terry