Re: gzip: stdout: Input/output error

[Paul Eggert]

Eduardo Hernández <address@hidden> writes:

> I was thinking that it is because the size of the file... it's 11GB 
> compressed.

Since gzip created the file, it's unlikely that the file size is the
issue.  Most likely it's a hardware problem.

You can try "dd if=/dev/whatever of=/dev/null ibs=512", or perhaps use
a different input block size depending on your device.

Of course you'll need a large-file dd.  Most dd's are these days.  If
yours isn't, build and use the latest coreutils
<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0.tar.gz>.