[afnog] Untar large files

[Veronique Umutesi]

When I do gunzip the tar.gz file which was 100GB becomes 10k!!!

 

 

 

From: Youness Hamidi [mailto:youness.ha at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 3:19 PM
To: Veronique Umutesi
Cc: afnog at afnog.org
Subject: Re: [afnog] Untar large files

 

Hi, 
Try to unzip then uintar:

mv xxx.tgz xxx.tar.gz
gunzip xxx.tar.gz
tar xf xxx.tar

Hope it will work !



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Youness Hamidi, System & Network Administrator
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Veronique Umutesi
<veronique.umutesi at bsc.rw> wrote:

 

 

Hi

 

I need to untar a file with 100GB but getting error:

gzip: stdin: decompression ok trailing garbage ignored

child returned status 2

error exit delayed from previous errors

 

Anyone can help?

 

 

Thanks

 

Veronique


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