Tar help

jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject: Tar help

Hi guys i have a 4 gig .tar file and everytime i want to uncompress it it runs into an error and stops, i think it is due to the size of the file but i have enough space were i am unpacking it at, is there any way to force it to unpack the whole thing or what can i do? any thing helps thanks.

fido · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

Can you post some of the errors? Are they always the same or do they vary?
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jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject:

sorry about it let me get it for you

jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject:

This is the error sorry i didnt post it earlier i keep getting it everytime i try to unoack the file

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject:

jsias99,

You've not kept it on a filesystem with a 2Gb file size limit have you?
e.g. moving it over NFS will break it like that
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jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

woops is there anything i can do, to recover the other 2 gigs

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject:

jsias99,

If you still have the original, you can scp it.
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jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:

huh? scp it what is that sorry im kinda of new

jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject:

so there is nothing i can do to open the complete file, i am confussed.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

jsias99,

scp == Secure CoPy Its part of ssh on linux - get the PuTTY client if a Windows box is involved.
Its a completely general copy that uses an encrypted channel. So you can securely copy files between two hosts while sat at a third.

The syntax is scp <source_file> <destination_file>
<source_file> <destination_file> are both of the form
user@host:/path/to/file

You may omit parts that are not required.
user must be a valid user on the host - you will be challenged for users password.
host may ne a name or IP.

So scp /path/to/file user@host:/path/to/dest/ will copy a local file to a remote machine.
scp -r does whole directories.
See

jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject:

so i must have another machine with unix

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

jsias99,

No. Only one box need run Linux but it must be the remote one. Get putty here http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Putty is just the ssh client. It can connect to linux but it soed not provide a host, so cannot accept connections.
You need pscp too. Thats the scp client for windows.

Then you need to be sitting at the windows box to use them. The syntax is the same.
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fido · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject:

Well, the machine that you are getting it from needs to be any box with ssh installed. This could be Unix or Windows, although if it were Unix you would have a far better chance of having the tools already installed
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject:

fido,

The data transfer can be either way but PuTTY cannot accept incomming connections,
so you need to do the control from the Windows box.
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jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject:

ok ill give it a shot, i have putty already so i need pscp then i type in the same command and it will tranfer the file to my windows machine right.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject:

jsias99,

Yes.
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jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject:

ok im going to sound dumb, but im secure shelled into the machine, so were exactly on the windows machine would it save it, can it be like on a folder i create, does it matter if it is running windows?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:58 pm Post subject:

jsias99,

Its saves it where you tell it. In <destination_file>
On the windows box you do
pscp user@host:/path/to/source C:\some\windows\file\
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jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject:

now i would type that in in putty os pscp

adaptr · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject:

There is an easier way: winscp.
Google for it, download it, and you will be up and running in under a minute ;-)

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jsias99 · Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject:

yeah i found it it works great thanks guys i really apreciate it.

shanenin · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:15 am Post subject:

fido · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

According to the NFS documentation found here:

shanenin · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:46 pm Post subject:

thanks for finding that info for me.
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