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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:16:50 +0100 (CET)
From:      Stefan Krantz <s@ux.se>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem?
Message-ID:  <20040217110937.Y73217@yabba.500mhz.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040217100822.GA13286@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20040217103909.N73217@yabba.500mhz.net> <20040217100822.GA13286@xor.obsecurity.org>

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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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