Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:46:37 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Stefan Krantz <s@ux.se> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Anyway to extract a large file from EXT2FS filesystem? Message-ID: <20040218134637.GA31532@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20040217140218.H900@yabba.500mhz.net> References: <20040217103909.N73217@yabba.500mhz.net> <20040217100822.GA13286@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040217110937.Y73217@yabba.500mhz.net> <20040217102121.GA13632@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040217112251.GA25431@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20040217140218.H900@yabba.500mhz.net>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:04:06PM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: > > > > > > > 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 ;). > > > > > > I'm CC'ing tjr and bde, who might have some idea about the problem. > > > > Try this patch and let me know how it goes. > > This patch worked great! Thanks for testing it - I'll commit a slightly improved version shortly. Tim
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