[Om2008.9] tar file corrupt after transport to FR

[William Kenworthy]

Yeah, the busybox tar command cant handle large files without dying.  I
untar'd what I could and just ran rsync to fix the problems and move the
rest over - slower but it worked.

BillK

On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:08 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wanted to tranfer some thousand (OSM) files from my laptop to the FR;
> 
> the tar file is fine on the laptop (FreeBSD 7.0r):
> 
> $ tar tf osm-20081114.tar | wc -l
>    13067
> 
> the MD5 sums are matching after transport with SCP:
> 
> $ md5 osm-20081114.tar        
> MD5 (osm-20081114.tar) = 4b23f51e29307281d0a18e3aac2f7324
> 
> root at om-gta02:/media/card# md5sum osm-20081114.tar
> 4b23f51e29307281d0a18e3aac2f7324  osm-20081114.tar
> 
> but:
> 
> root at om-gta02:/media/card# tar tf osm-20081114.tar  
> tar: corrupted octal value in tar header
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> 	matthias
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