Don't use zcat to decompress a file ... use the appropriate tool, gunzip: gunzip file.tar.gz ls file.tar NB. gunzip -c file.tar.gz is identical to zcat/ He already has a backup of the tar.gz ... it's called a tape Tom Walter Dnes wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:51:45AM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote
PS - I got a dd of th last tape that ran (finally) and it is about 3.6GB (about right). I extracted it as a tar.gz (which should work) but it fails claiming to not be a gzip archive... Any ideas on that front by chance?
*MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF THE TAR.GZ FILE FIRST* !!!
Straight from the man page...
tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz extract gzipped foo.tar.gz
..did you remember the "z" parameter ?
I've had similar problems with tar.bz2 archives. I find that doing it one step at a time works. Note, you will need a *LOT* more diskspace.
Step 1) zcat filename.tar.gz > filename.tar The "zcat" executable is named "gzcat" in some versions. Use whichever one works on your system.
Step 2) tar -xvf filename.tar
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