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"Reading compressed archive is even simpler: you don't need to specify any additional options as GNU tar recognizes its format automatically." (GNU tar manual)



Allright, that will be my Sunday...

Info is nice, I didn't know Info:-)



Actually I applied gzip ('z' option). I have a gzip'ed archive salted by file listings at random. A gzip'ed archive is like any gzip'ed file. Tar's listings...

Yes, it's corrupt (and the only backup I have):

# tar -xf backup
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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I'm using:
# tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.17
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free...

Hi,

I messed up a gzip'ed tarball by tar's verbose output:

tar -cvzf /dev/stdout /home | split -d -b 4000m - backupPART

I partioned the harddisk and installed fedora 8. My 6 GB '/home'...