Hey all,
thanx to all who replied. I had a couple people suggest that the disk might
be full but there was still a good two gigs left. clifford turned in the
winning answer (below). use gnu tar. compiled/installed it and everything
worked w/o a hitch. god I love gnu. B)
thanx
ej
----- Original Message -----
From: "clifford thurber" <cthurber@concretemedia.com>
To: "Erin Jones" <erin@internationalcomputing.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Tar: extract write error
: try using gnu tar instead.
:
: At 12:23 PM 8/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
: >Hey all,
: >
: >I am trying to dump one filesystem to another in order to move away from
: >vxfs trial. I already dumped the directory /export/home/yn over to
: >/export/home/erin/bigdisk, layed down a new ufs filesystem on
: >/export/home/yn/. when trying to dump it back I am getting the following
: >error:
: >12:16pm root@web1:~/bigdisk 46> tar cf - . | ( cd /export/home/yn ; tar
: >xf - )
: >tar: ./images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg: HELP - extract write error
: >
: >some more information about the files in question:
: >the file just created
: >12:19pm root@web1:~/bigdisk 47> ls -l
: >/export/home/yn/images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >-rw------- 1 root other 25600 Aug 29 12:19
: >/export/home/yn/images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >the original file:
: >12:19pm root@web1:~/bigdisk 48> ls -l
./images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >-rw-r--r-- 1 graphics dba 25901 Jul 20 1999
: >./images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >
: >a seemingly easy fix:
: >12:20pm root@web1:~/bigdisk 49> chown graphics:dba
: >/export/home/yn/images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >12:20pm root@web1:~/bigdisk 50> chmod 644
: >/export/home/yn/images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >12:20pm root@web1:~/bigdisk 51> ls -l
: >/export/home/yn/images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >-rw-r--r-- 1 graphics dba 25600 Aug 29 12:19
: >/export/home/yn/images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >
: >error in the same place:
: >12:20pm root@web1:~/bigdisk 52> tar cf - . | ( cd /export/home/yn ; tar
: >xf - )
: >tar: ./images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg: HELP - extract write error
: >
: >and back to the problem:
: >12:20pm root@web1:~/bigdisk 53> ls -l
: >/export/home/yn/images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >-rw------- 1 root other 25600 Aug 29 12:20
: >/export/home/yn/images/bmv/books/00/00021718.56j.jpg
: >
: >the pertinant info from df -k:
: >/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 8841042 7958126 855382 91%
: >/export/home/erin/bigdisk
: >/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 8747877 6833433 1826966 79% /export/home/yn
: >
: >it gets well into the dump before dying. once it has died repeated tar
cf -
: >. | tar xf - attempts die immediately and blame the same file.
: >does anybody have any idea what is causing this?
: >
: >thx
: >ej
: >
: >Erin Jones Senior Network Architect
: >erin@internationalcomputing.com (212) 387 0310 x19
: >perl -e 'print
$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
: > Unix: Where /sbin/init is Job #1.
: >
: >
: >
: >
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