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charlotte

2006-05-17, 7:17 am

On trying to tar the files in my directory ( tar -cvf a.tar * ) ,I
get the following error :
"Wrote only 8192 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now"
Please suggest the cause of the error

sudip05@mailcity.com

2006-05-17, 1:16 pm

no space left i guess...

Chuck Dillon

2006-05-17, 1:16 pm

charlotte wrote:

> On trying to tar the files in my directory ( tar -cvf a.tar * ) ,I
> get the following error :
> "Wrote only 8192 of 10240 bytes
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now"
> Please suggest the cause of the error
>


Was there an a.tar in the directory before you issued this command?

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Chuck Dillon
Manager of Software Development, Bioinformatics
NimbleGen Systems Inc.
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