Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:21:21 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.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: <20040217102121.GA13632@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040217110937.Y73217@yabba.500mhz.net> References: <20040217103909.N73217@yabba.500mhz.net> <20040217100822.GA13286@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040217110937.Y73217@yabba.500mhz.net>
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--wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 5BOn Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:16:50AM +0100, Stefan Krantz wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > 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? >=20 > Yes. Yesterday I tested the archive with "tar tvf" (11gb) in > Linux and it tested OK. In FBSD it says "unexpected EOF". >=20 > If I could i would just boot linux and split the file. But I can nolonger > boot linux =3D/ (migrated to fbsd 5.2 ;). I'm CC'ing tjr and bde, who might have some idea about the problem. Kris --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAMeshWry0BWjoQKURAvplAJ9mOWHM6l+u3g8lOLCJunbfh2nAMwCdGamu VBx82tQ65btmm94z1iZw4nc= =ds5Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--
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