On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:55:33AM +0000, Andrew Holway wrote: > Dear Bonnie, > > Your not getting an answer because the emails you are sending look > like spam to most email filters. > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > > > > > On 18 March 2014 09:22, Bonnie B Mtengwa <bmtengwa at potraz.gov.zw> wrote: > > I have a file Server CentOS 5.10, its on the internet, so I compress all csv > > into one file using (tar -czvf compressed_files.tar.gz *.csv) on this > > server so that I can download them as one compressed file to save bandwidth, > > Disk space on this server available is 50Gig, so when I copy the files onto > > Redhat EL 5.9 and decompress them using (tar -zxvf *.gz) It decompresses > > maybe 80% then get error: > > > > > > > > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file > > > > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > > > > tar: Unexpected EOF in archive > > > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > > > > > > what might be the issue here? Wild guess: Is the file, by anychance, somewhat over 4 gigs? I've had a problem, years past, when a particular compression tool blew up on files over 4 gigs, because it requires an integer larger than a 32-bit int to hold the file offsets. I wouldn't really expect that to be a problem on Centos 5.x, even on a 32-bit system, but one does wonder.... Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) -----------------------------