Hello everbody

Im trying to use tar for a file.

for example test.tar and I use tar xvf test.tar
and start to extract, but suddenly appear this message

tar:directory checksum error

What this message means? and how I can extract my tar file without problems.

Thanks in advance


My file with tar is 200mb.

Is the version of tar used to create the archive the same as the version used to unpack it? Some *nix native tar programs behave differently to GNU tar when it comes to encoding long path names and can cause this type of error.

Cheers
ZB

I've also seen that message when I ftp a tar file from one machine to another and forget to set it to binary. If you used ftp on this file you may want to try again and be sure it is doing a binary transfer to make sure that mistake didn't get you too.