Re: [Bug-tar] Re: unexpected EOF

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 20:06:20 +0200, Esther Kuehn <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I just tried to use GNU tar to unpack a 2.1 GB tar archieve. Everything
> > looked ok, he showed me all the files in there but always (whether I want to
> > list or to unpack the files of the tar archieve) it finishes with an error:
> >
> > address@hidden:~$ tar -xvf TUT_data.tar
> > dvd_01/
[...]
> > dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-103.zip
> > dvd_01/exp1-1/2-2004-1168X-104.zip
> > tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
> > tar: Unerwartetes Dateiende im Archiv.
> > tar: Nicht behebbarer Fehler: Programmabbruch.
[...]
> > I really dont know how to handle that, could you give me any help?

The archive is probably broken. My guess is that its size is *exactly*
2GB, which points to a quite common error: The archive probably got
copied to a filesystem that can only handle a maximum file size of 2GB
and thus cut off there. (Another chance is that this is an old system
that can only handle files <= 2GB, but I guess it's the former issue
that's biting you).

You cannot do anything against that, except try to get your hands on
the original archive if it still exists somewhere...

MfG, JBG

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