Now, if someone wants to check how much space is needed to untar and uncompress the file oraclebackup.tgz how can he check ?
You can't: because of he algorithm used there is no direct relation between the source and the target file size: if file X is bigger than file Y then X.gz might still be smaller than Y.gz. The only way to find out is to actually compress the file. The same is true for the other way round.
gunzip < /backup1/oraclebackup.tgz | /opt/freeware/bin/tar -xvf-
/opt/freeware/bin/tar: oracle/prodappl/au/11.5.0/forms/AR/GMDSTAED.fmb: Wrote only 9728 of 10240 bytes
/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Skipping to next header
/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
/opt/freeware/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
my 155GB filesystems fills up and tar exits,
but when i use the AIX tar to untar , it untars without any problems, and the filesystem after untar is 147GB where as using GNU tar , my filesystem becomes full at 155GB and exits. My filesystem capacity is 155GB ;
Two minor corrections: first, tar is one of the few commands where "-" does NOT introduce options. Correct is:
Code:
tar xvf -
Still, i do not think this is pertinent to your problem.
Second: i am not sure if gunzip < /backup1 really extracts to stdout. I'd use the "-c" flag, which does that (extract to stdout), but then, this might be working too. RIght now i have no gunzip on AIX at hand to verify.
Regarding your problem: i have no idea. Which "tar"-version is installed in /opt/freeware?
/opt/freeware/bin/tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.14
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
$ tar -tvf file.tar
$ zcat file.tar.Z | tar tvf -
$ tar -ztvf file.tar.gz
$ tar -ztvf file.tar.gz > files.txt
note: -z will not work on AIX but will work on Linux , equivalent would be
$ gunzip < test.tgz | tar tvf -
$ tar -jtvf file.tar.bz2
We had that already: "tar tvf ....", without the dash.
Quote:
Originally Posted by filosophizer
note: -z will not work on AIX but will work on Linux
This has nothing to do with the OS, only with the tar-version you use: GNU-tar understands "z" (again: not "-z", but "z") andh "j", the AIX-tar (and any other POSIX-conformant "tar") does not. Linux has the GNU-tar installed by default, AIX the AIX-tar.
This is why i would never on "j" or "z" or any other non-standard subcommand and always would use:
Code:
$unpackprogram file | tar tvf -
Simply, because the extra feature may or may not be there, but this is guaranteed to work. Part of my work philosohpy is to avoid unnecessary risks. This is one - and one which is easily avoided, for that matter.
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