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Date:      Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:44:38 -0600
From:      Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        TuxGirl <tuxgirl@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Value too large to be stored in data type -- gzipped tarball
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a0512181944j65dacc27t92ad253581e1019a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6e4453640512181858qdcf8e2ay640326713dee89be@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6e4453640512181858qdcf8e2ay640326713dee89be@mail.gmail.com>

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On 12/18/05, TuxGirl <tuxgirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a gzipped tarball that I created on my box when i was running
> Linux, and I burned it, along with some other files, onto a dvd.  I'm
> now trying to extract the tarball, but it appears that it must be over
> some sort of filesystem limit or something.  None of the commands that
> I have tried seem to like the file.  Each of them gives the same

[snip]

> I'm fairly certain that the tarball is fine, because it worked fine on
> my server last week, when i opened it up there...

Might want try a different implementation of tar then....
cd /usr/ports/archivers; make search name=3D"tar"| more



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