Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to extract a tar file that was made on a redhat linux and then transferred trough FTP to the AIX 5.2 server.

Everytime i extract the TAR file it stops with an error on the exact same line:
I get the file trough FTP in bainary mode. First time i just did the ftp transfer again, because i though it got corrupt. But i tried several times and always the exact same error when extracting with tar -xvf filename.tar

I then tried recreating the tar on the redhat box using different tar format. I tried them all: ustar, posix, v7, oldgnu. I then transferred them all, and every time exactly the same error as above.

I'm really lost as why this is, and how to fix this ?

Have you tried extracting the tar file on the Redhat machine in a temporary directory? Also what is the size of the tar file? You can also try to gzip the file during the transport. if you are able to ungip the file then you are guaranteed that it transfered successfully. A checksum on both sides would also do the same. What is the filesystem type on the AIX machine?

You can always try Java's jar.

The file was a tar.gz originally, but that failed to extract with some compressed headers error. After that i unzipped it on the redhat box (went fine btw) and then tried transferring the tar file.

The tar.gz was downloaded from internet and works fine on a redhat with ext3. After 3 failed atttempts with ftp & tar, I then tried tarrin it myself with different formats as said in my 1st post.

The AIX 5.2 server uses ZFS filesystem.

disk is full?

No disk is not full. Even tried a different partition (/usr instead of /home).

I finally got it fixed by making a cpio archive of the directory with some special header option on the linux side and then extracting the CPIO on AIX with no problem at all.