[linux] Damaged bzip'd tar files

[Robert Lucas]

>Is the corruption affecting bz2 or tar?  Instead of running as one
>command (`tar -xjf <file>`), try as separate actions:
>`bunzip2 <file>`
>`tar -xv <file>`

The command used to make the files was:

tar -cjvf important.tbz2 vital_dir/

So there weren't any other options used unless they were defaults I was unaware of.

The corruption is clearly with the bzip2 compression. Trying to bunzip2 important.tbz2 give errors, using bzip2recover I get back 171 chunks. I can then bunzip2 most of those, except for chunks 12,27,58,65,72,110, and 133.

The chunks then represent a tar file, and I don't know how to make tar work in the middle of an archive (ie I can't untar around the bad chunks?)

Robert

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