Re: gunzip and Unexpected EOF
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:35:55AM +0200, Almut Behrens wrote:
> 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...
I've always thought that some kind of cryptographic technique should
be able to recover data after a gzip corruption.
-- hendrik
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