Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
On 27 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> | > I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled & tried to restore it, I
> | > found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies around 2gb?).
> |
> | You can force gzip to handle it as a stream. Try something like:
> |
> | cat tarfile.tgz | gunzip -c | tar xvf -
> |
> | The "-c" tells gunzip to pipe it to stdout, and the "xvf -" tells tar
> | to verbosely extract the file coming into stdin. If I understand your
> | problem correctly, this should work.
>
> It's even simpler:
>
> gzip -d -c tarfile.tgz |tar xvf -
>
> or, if you're using GNU Tar, and you are under Debian):
>
> tar xzvf tarfile.tgz
They are both lovely suggestions, unfortunately the problem is a bit more
substantial. The 1st thing I tried was "tar -zxvf home.tgz", and a couple
of the things I tried soon after that were cat and less. Neither of which
read any of it -- less is the only thing that did anything useful, which
was saying "Cannot seek to that file position" which made me think "hmm,
did I hear something about stuff not being able to seek past 2gb??"
You might think that it would sit there chewing on the file for a bit
before it got to some point beyond what it could deal with. Nope. Didn't
even start -- failed to even open the file up.
Any more ideas ? :)
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