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Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:15:11 +0200 |
Jean-Louis Martineau <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> > touch 1
> > tar cz 1 > file.tgz
> > ls -al file.tgz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 martinea martinea 10240 Nov 23 07:32 file.tgz
> > dd if=file.tgz count=1 bs=108 > a.tgz
> > gunzip -t -v a.tgz
> a.tgz: OK
>
> Why the file is 10k in size? Why tar pad with zeros a compressed output?
> The first 108 bytes are the compressed tar file followed by zeros.
Please, use the latest tar version. You probably are using 1.15 or
something earlier:
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.19
...
$ touch 1
$ tar cfz - 1 > a.tgz
$ tar cf - 1 | gzip > b.tgz
$ ls -l a.tgz b.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 gray staff 110 2007-11-23 18:06 a.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 gray staff 110 2007-11-23 18:06 b.tgz
For more info, please see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-11/index.html#00027
-Sergey
- [Bug-tar] bug in GnuTar, Vitaly V. Ch, 2007/11/22
- [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Vitaly V. Ch, 2007/11/22
- Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007/11/22
- Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Vitaly V. Ch, 2007/11/22
- Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007/11/22
- Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Vitaly V. Ch, 2007/11/22
- Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Tim Kientzle, 2007/11/22
- Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Jean-Louis Martineau, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Vitaly V. Ch, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar,
Sergey Poznyakoff <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2007/11/23
- [Bug-tar] Re: Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2007/11/22
- [Bug-tar] Re: Fwd: bug in GnuTar, Vitaly V. Ch, 2007/11/23
Re: [Bug-tar] bug in GnuTar, Paul Eggert, 2007/11/25