From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 19:55:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB37716A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:55:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (rtfm.spawar.navy.mil [198.253.71.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5E143D8A for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Received: from slaughters.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rtfm.spawar.navy.mil (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2C3roPi020124; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:53:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@slaughters.com) Message-ID: <4051344E.2070304@slaughters.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:53:50 -0800 From: lee slaughter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lowell Gilbert References: <4050D554.9090102@slaughters.com> <447jxqde1l.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <447jxqde1l.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: incorrect super block X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: lee@slaughters.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 03:55:43 -0000 > > > >There is no filesystem support for mounting gzipped tar files as >filesystems, so you'll have to use it as a raw device. > tar -xzf /dev/acd1 >should extract the data. > no, i tried it with tar file. it got maybe 20% of way thru with unexpected eof. with tar.gz: tar: /dev/acd1: Cannot read: Input/output error tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now i just want to back up to a cd.