On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 16:13 -0700, jack craig wrote: > > On 07/08/2010 03:35 PM, JD wrote: > > Hi, > > I had downloaded a zip file under windows and unzipped it. > > No problems. > > The file names in the zipped archive are long german names, so > > they are displayed with special chars embedded in the file names > > and directory names, like > > Barrè > > Mächter > > among others. > > > > So I tarred out the whole directory into a tar file. > > Later I moved that tar file to another mounted partition. > > I cd'ed to the mounted partition and tried to untar it: > > tar xpvf my-tar-ball.tar > > > > For every file in the tarball, tar outputs the message > > <.....long.......file........name>: No such file or directory. > > > > Any clues why this is happening? > > > > Thanx, > > > > JD > > > > > what does > > $tar tvf my-tar-ball.tar > > say You might also check the file system type you moved it to. If you moved it to a FAT16 or FAT32 volume, you might not have gotten all the file as FAT16 has a 2G file size limitation. Don't know FAT32 restriction, but I suspect it is larger, but still might not hold your tar-ball. Regards, Les H -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
