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Old 06-16-2013
Gunzip and tar command

Hi
I wanted to tar and gunzip a file named backup

tar: backup.tar: Wrote only 2244 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Please do help.

Last edited by sonia102; 06-16-2013 at 07:44 PM..
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Old 06-16-2013
Do you mean you want to create or extract an archive?
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Old 06-16-2013
I was trying to create a tar.gz file.
Ya I was trying to create one
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Old 06-16-2013
I did a quick search on this error and it seems that the most common cause of this error is if you are out of file system space.

So check your file system utilization.
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Old 06-16-2013
Not sharing the exact commands that you are running is an inefficient method of soliciting technical assistance.

Regards,
Alister
 
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