Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?
Stefan Krantz
s at ux.se
Tue Feb 17 02:16:52 PST 2004
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I would like to extract a large (11GB) tar file on an ext3 filesystem. But
> > it shows only to be about 3gb large:
> >
> > yabba# ls -la pictures.tar
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3317055488 Feb 15 19:03 pictures.tar
> >
> > Is there any possible way to extract the file?
>
> It shouldn't be appearing truncated. Are you certain that this size
> is incorrect, and the file has a different size when viewed from
> another OS?
Yes. Yesterday I tested the archive with "tar tvf" (11gb) in
Linux and it tested OK. In FBSD it says "unexpected EOF".
If I could i would just boot linux and split the file. But I can nolonger
boot linux =/ (migrated to fbsd 5.2 ;).
Regards,
Stefan
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