Re: Extracting error

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:25:12 -0800, laxman wrote:

I am getting error after extracting few files. I have used the
following command to extracting the files  # tar -zxvf home.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

there is very very important data is inside the file please help me
on this .....please

You usually get that error if the file isn't compressed (or it may be
corrupted).  Try:-
$ file home.tar.gz
To see if it really is a gzipped file - if you used a browser or mail
client to transfer it, they sometimes uncompress automatically, but
fail to write the file with the correct extension.

i have tried the command $file home.tar.gz it has given the following
massage as a gzip file home.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix

i am able to extract some files but some are pending

Sounds like the file is truncated... Can you retrieve it again?

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