[afnog] Untar large files

[Veronique Umutesi]

Dear Hugo
Here are the outputs:

Ls -l myfile.tar.gz:
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 104G Oct 19 18:20 myfile.tar.gz

  gzip --list --verbose myfile.tar.gz:
method  crc     date  time           compressed        uncompressed  ratio
uncompressed_name
defla 2c5f4ca8 Oct 19 18:20        110935750031          2526345216 -4291.2%
myfile.tar

gzip --test --verbose myfile.tar.gz:
myfile.tar.gz:
gzip: myfile.tar.gz: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
 OK

Veronique Umutesi
System Administrator
Broadband Systems Corporation (BSC Ltd) Office : 2nd  Floor, 
Telecom House, Blv de L'Umuganda | P. O.Box  7229 Kigali, Rwanda | 
Call 4141 | Email: veronique.umutesi @bsc.rw Website: www.bsc.rw





-----Original Message-----
From: Hugo Lombard [mailto:hal at elizium.za.net] 
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 8:10 PM
To: Veronique Umutesi
Cc: afnog at afnog.org
Subject: Re: [afnog] Untar large files

Hello

Could you perhaps send the output of the following:

  ls -l myfile.gz
  gzip --list --verbose myfile.gz
  gzip --test --verbose myfile.gz

substituting 'myfile.gz' with your filename.

Regards

-- 
Hugo Lombard