Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?

[Stefan Krantz]

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