by Peter C T » Mon, 09 Dec 1996 04:00:00
I am running tar extract on a Sun Sparc 5 with Solaris 2.5.1 configured,
64 meg ram, and 192 meg swap space. I always hit a tar extract error on big
tar files like the gcc.tar. tar will crash with output:
HELP- extract write error.
I suspect it is running out of swap space, but is there any other reasons,
and what is the solution?
Thanks for any help.
by Joerg Schilli » Tue, 10 Dec 1996 04:00:00
This is one of the narrow minded leftovers from UNIX V7.Quote:>I am running tar extract on a Sun Sparc 5 with Solaris 2.5.1 configured,
>64 meg ram, and 192 meg swap space. I always hit a tar extract error on big
>tar files like the gcc.tar. tar will crash with output:
> HELP- extract write error.
Unfortunately most of the old tools do not print decent error messages.
Tar didn't change the last 15 Years in this point.
Either try truss -o /tmp/tar.truss tar .....
and look for the error code of the last failing system call
or get a decent tar.
Star prints readable error messages and can be found on
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star
Joerg
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It has a 3 1/2 floppy drive.
We use tar to store and retrieve data files on floppies.
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