Re: gunzip and Unexpected EOF
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:59:09AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Read 4489 bytes from /mnt/root.tar.gz
>
> Apparently a special file or something in / makes gzip stop
> before decompressing most of the 900 MB file. Is there any way to
> cause it to go any farther?
I'm afraid your tarball got corrupted... In that case - I'm sorry to
say - you're almost certainly outta luck. After creating a tar.gz
file, the _whole_ tarfile has been piped through gzip, so if any part
of the file gets corrupted afterwards (however tiny - a single bit is
sufficient), the gzip algorithm will not be able to recover any data
later in the stream...
My personal advice to avoid such desaster in future: use 'afio'
instead of tar + gzip. afio compresses each file seperately, so in
case of partial corruption if the archive, most of the remaining files
can still be recovered...
Sorry for the bad news,
Almut
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