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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers error reading from tape Post 27367 by colesy on Friday 30th of August 2002 05:08:18 AM
Old 08-30-2002
I have stipulated the blocksize using the b option, but am stlll getting this "tar: directory checksum error".

Any ideas of how to solve this part?

Thanks
 

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FSCK.CRAMFS(8)						       System Administration						    FSCK.CRAMFS(8)

NAME
fsck.cramfs - fsck compressed ROM file system SYNOPSIS
fsck.cramfs [options] file DESCRIPTION
fsck.cramfs is used to check the cramfs file system. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose Enable verbose messaging. -b, --blocksize blocksize Use this blocksize, defaults to page size. Must be equal to what was set at creation time. Only used for --extract. --extract[=directory] Test to uncompress the whole file system. Optionally extract contents of the file to directory. -a This option is silently ignored. -y This option is silently ignored. -V, --version Display version information and exit. -h, --help Display help text and exit. EXIT STATUS
0 success 4 file system was left uncorrected 8 operation error, such as unable to allocate memory 16 usage information was printed SEE ALSO
mount(8), mkfs.cramfs(8) AVAILABILITY
The example command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils /util-linux/>. util-linux April 2013 FSCK.CRAMFS(8)
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